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María Magdalena Campos-Pons: MAMA/RECIPROCAL ENERGY

Presented by Vanderbilt University at Vanderbilt University - Fine Arts Gallery

October 12-December 8, 2011

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María Magdalena Campos-Pons: MAMA/RECIPROCAL ENERGY will be the first exhibition that examines this internationally recognized artist’s drawings. Five large-scale, mixed-media drawings, works that the artist created as a means to explore themes central to her practice, such as issues of identity, exile, and displacement as an Afro-Cuban artist living in America, will be included. In addition to these works, drawings that address specific performances the artist has presented over the course of her career, one of which is a collaborative work she created with her son, will also be featured. This later body of work is the artist’s attempt at “putting the [performances] in a memory box, [in order to create] the essence of the moment.” The drawings will be accompanied by a three-channel video work that examines questions surrounding the nature of energy from a unique perspective.

Born in Matanzas in 1959, Campos-Pons was educated in Cuba at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (1976–1979) and the Instituto Superior de Arte (1980–1985). In 1988, she continued her studies as an exchange student in the graduate program at the Massachusetts College of Art. In addition, she was a Bunting Fellow for the Visual Arts at Harvard University. She is one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Cuban post-revolutionary era. Campos-Pons moved to North America in 1991 and now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, the composer and performing artist Neil Leonard, and their son.

This exhibition is part of a collaboration among the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Art, the Department of History of Art, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies, the Atlantic World Seminar, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, Neil Leonard, and the College of Arts and Science.