Rosa Naday Garmendia: Artist Statement and Art Work

Authors

  • Rosa Naday Garmedia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29556

Abstract

A series of photographic images depicting the artwork of socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist, Rosa Naday Garmedia, as well as a statement supporting the background of the art. The images depict selected installation views of the "Rituals of Commemoration" at the Corcoran Gallery, an ongoing project started in 2014. This iteration of the Commemoration project presents the most named bricks, 469 of the 1,252 representing lives of black men and women killed by police or security guards across the United States between 1979 to date.

Author Biography

Rosa Naday Garmedia

Rosa Naday Garmedia is a socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist who produces work at the Nexus of Contemporary Art and Activism. Her work is rooted in social issues, particularly the intersectionality of her identity as a woman, immigrant, and industrial worker. She studied at the University of South Florida, Parsons School of Design, Univesity of Miami, Vermont Studio Center and the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute. Garmedia uses art as a tool to reflect on and to analyze the norms and values in contemporary society. She has been focusing on projects that critcally view the role of the police, acts of racism, poverty, and the growing military intervention abroad. She is a teaching artist at the Perez Art Museum in Miami since 2008.

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Published

2021-08-27

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020): "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Section

Post Colonial Articles, Poetry, Artwork