Center for Curatorial Studies Presents
Speaker Series: Guadalupe Rosales
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Introduced by Angelica Arbelaez, CCS Bard Graduate Student
Open to Bard Students, Faculty, and Staff only
Guadalupe Rosales (b.1980 Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator best known for her community generated archival projects, “Veteranas and Rucas” and “Map Pointz,” found on social media. The projects manifested in 2015 from the under/misrepresentation and historical erasure of Latin@/x communities in Southern California. These community-generated projects begin with an open invitation to various Latin@/x communities to share personal images and memories. These projects create visual narratives that celebrate identities and historicize subcultures. The archives explore ideas about how history and culture are framed and who does the framing. As a counterpoint, the archive celebrates, humanizes and reflects the positive and honest attributes of our shared culture. It creates a space for collective healing and storytelling and finds ways for new dialogue to emerge about youth culture in Southern California that would not exist otherwise.Open to Bard Students, Faculty, and Staff only
In her studio practice, Guadalupe works with sculpture, photography, video, sound, drawing, and community based projects and collaborations, and the archive, centering on the creation of immersive and sensorial spaces to activate memory and evoke a collective experience and embodiment. These spaces conjure up emotions as well as collective feelings of longing that reside in our bodies and remain as living archives. Here, she wants us to consider the body as archives and a locus that preserves, carries, moves, and transforms memory but also intervenes in the continuum of a life archived. The purpose is to uplift private experiences and create space for them to be shared, to see what is concealed and collectively create a multidimensional experience.
Guadalupe’s studio also houses and preserves a physical archive of Chicano/Latinx ephemera from the 1970s to the late-1990s, including but not limited to magazines, prison art and letters, posters and flyers from the Los Angeles underground backyard-party and rave scenes of the 1990s.
She holds an MFA from The School of The Art Institute Of Chicago. She has exhibited at Museo Universitario Del Chopo (Mexico City), The Gordon Parks Foundation (New York), The Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles), The Kitchen (New York), and Aperture Foundation (New York).
Rosales has lectured at various institutions such as UCLA, Yale University, Columbia University, The Getty, The New Museum, MOCA, and The Graduate Center in New York. Rosales’s work has been featured by The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, ArtNews, Artsy, and Artforum, Univision and NPR.
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For more information, call 845-758-7598, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art