Featured Artist: Dulce Pinzon
As a young Mexican artist living in the US (currently in Brooklyn, NY), Dulce Pinzon found new inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations. In her black and white series “Viviendo en el Gabacho” (a Mexican colloquialism for living in the US) she illustrates the dualistic phenomenon of the integration of the Mexican immigrant into the New York landscape. This concept of dualism was further developed when she used nostalgic iconograpic images from a Mexican card game projected over the naked bodies of her New York friends and loved ones in “Loteria”. ”Multiracial” portrayed subjects of multiracial heritage against primary color backgrounds, exposing the frailty of our concepts of race. “The Real Story of the superheroes” comes full circle to reintroduce the Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning superhero garb, thus raising questions of both our definition of heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels our ever-consuming economy. Below: The artist, Dulce Pinzon photographed by Julieta Cervantes and, Spiderman from the series The Real Story of the Superheroes.
The Real Story of Superheroes will be on view at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey through 1/18/08. Stay tuned for Dulce’s latest project “People I Like” - studio portraits of divas, rock stars, party goers, drama queens and artists; all of them Latinos; and, all a part of what she believes to be a breakthrough in the Latino cultural scene of New York City. On top of their already existing alter egos, Dulce is adding universal stereotypes thus creating time-encapsulated portraits.
