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Modulate: Art Exhibit

Presented by Center for Emerging Visual Artists at Center for Emerging Visual Artists

October 27-November 22, 2011

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The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) is pleased to present Modulate, a Spotlight Exhibition by CFEVA Career Development Program Fellows Allison Kaufman and Ana B. Hernandez. On view at CFEVA’s gallery, the exhibition opens on October 27th and runs through November 22nd. There will be Artist Talks and a Reception on Thursday, October 27th from 5:00 – 7:00 PM. Gallery hours for this exhibition are Monday through Friday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM and by appointment.

 

Ana B. Hernandez, originally from Spain, is a Philadelphia-based fiber and installation artist whose work investigates how the female body interweaves with the environment by recontextualizing color and simple materials, such as shells, thread, and fabric. Through delicate treatment of these materials, her work speaks of adaptation and transformation. Allison Kaufman, New York-based photographer and video artist, reveals the vulnerability, loneliness, hope, and disappointments of both her subjects and herself by creating temporary, intimate relationships with strangers. Investigating how these emotions are played out in both the public and private spheres, her work highlights the gender roles we assume in relationships and society and plays on the persona, performance, and gaze inherent in all photography and video.

 

Ana B. Hernandez was born in Spain to a Spanish mother and Puerto Rican father. In 1997, she moved with her family to Orlando, Florida. She received a BA from the University of Central Florida in 2002 in ceramics and fibers. In 2003, she moved to Philadelphia to pursue the Master of Fine Arts in Fibers and Textiles at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. After graduating in the spring of 2005, Ana attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture summer residency in Maine and was invited as a visiting artist at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, in Arizona and Wisconsin. She lived and worked with this community for two years, where she developed her interest in outdoor installation and co-founded the Taliesin Artist Residency Program (TARP) in 2006. Back in Philadelphia since fall 2007, Hernandez received the Oasis Arts and Education Fellowship in 2009. She has recently been a resident at the 40th Street Artist in Residence program and received a New Courtland Artist Fellowship from The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA). She is currently a Fellow in the Career Development Program at CFEVA and has exhibited her work in numerous local and national solo and group exhibitions.

 

Allison Kaufman is a photo and video artist living in New York City. She received her BFA in Film and Television Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2000 and her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in 2008. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States at the Aqua Miami and Affordable Art Fairs, Hendershot Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Artists Space, and Brooklyn Borough Hall, as well as Galerie Scherer8 in Berlin. Kaufman is the recipient of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award and an Alumni Scholarship Award from the School of Visual Arts, has been an artist-in-residence at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts and Penland School of Crafts, and is currently a fellow at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Her work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review, and Bomb Magazine’s BOMBlog. Kaufman teaches at a variety of institutions and is currently an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Most recently, she was an artist in residence at Yaddo in August of 2011.