Artist: Virginia Inés Vergara
Current City: New York, NY
Item Details: 4" x 6" Archival C-Print with Hand-painted Emulsion, Framed, 2020, Unique
50% of the proceeds from this piece will be directed to Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). SoMad has united a community of artists and activists, embracing the power of art to affect social change, working to honor Latinx lives and territories, and bringing attention to those fighting for the Earth's survival. FOGO! features artists originating from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Puerto Rico. This exhibition celebrates the artists’ heritage and culturally-informed stylistic expressions.
Virginia Inés Vergara (Chilean, b.1980) explores archives, systems of knowledge, and representations of nature in her artwork Represas_Blue Gold. She uses solvents to erode the embedded pigments in prints from the Represas series. Her original technique allows her to erode the landscapes depicted (landscapes taken from her personal archive of images) while questioning traditional photographic processes.
Vergara is a photo-based Chilean American artist with a studio practice in New York City. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Hunter College. She has had a solo exhibition at Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY in both 2015 and 2016, participated in group shows at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY in 2018, Magenta Planes, NY in 2018, Carriage Trade Gallery, NY in 2017-2019, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY in 2014. Reviews of her work have appeared in Nueva Luz in 2019, Brooklyn Rail in 2018, The New Yorker in 2018, New York Times in 2017, Financial Times in 2017. Her work is in numerous private collections including a promised gift to MoMA. She has lectured and conducted workshops at Columbia University, Hunter College and Edna Manley College.