Lucia Hierro: Kitchen Still Life With Yoryi Morel
Born and raised in Washington Heights, a predominantly Dominican neighborhood that sits above West Harlem in New York City, artist Lucia Hierro focuses on her experience in New York City and her Dominican roots. Throughout her body of work, the artist explores themes related to class, ethnicity, gender, taste, and privilege via ordinary objects rescaled and recontextualized.
Hierro often transforms everyday items consumed by society – magazines, rubber gloves, plastic bottles, apples – into monumental relics. In "Kitchen Still Life with Yoryi Morel," Hierro juxtaposes conventional objects that imply a sense of mass production (such as a plastic shopping bag) with highly contrasting items that signify singularity and the handmade (a reproduction of a painting by Dominican artist Yoryi Morel or a hand painted figurine). The intermixing and overlapping of such objects with certain implied signifiers, on view for the public to “consume”, perhaps encourages a questioning of our preconceived notions related to these material objects and more generally, the products that dene commodity, consumerism, and culture.
Lucia Hierro received a BFA from SUNY Purchase (2010) and an MFA from Yale School of Art (2013). Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, all in New York; Casa Quién, Santo Domingo; the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles and most recently Sean Horton (presents), Dallas Texas. Her work is part of the JP Morgan Chase art collection and the Rennie collection in Vancouver. Hierro lives and works in New York.
Hierro debuted her artwork in Texas for the first time in 2019 during her exhibition at Sean Horton (presents), which is the recent project of Sean Horton, who founded and directed galleries in New York and Berlin, beginning with Sunday L.E.S. on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2006. Horton has realized more than 150 exhibitions, art fair presentations, and off-site projects to date around the world. A native of North Texas, Horton currently divides time between New York and Dallas. Horton has been a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) since 2007 and has participated in NADA Miami, NADA New York, The Armory Show, Art Brussels, Independent Brussels, Untitled Art Fair, and the Dallas Art Fair, among others.
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