BLANKA AMEZKUA
We/Us : We Inter-Are
Blanka Amezkua, WE/US : WE INTER-ARE.
Photo Credit: Argenis Apolinario
Using humble materials easily found in our local dollar stores, I’ve been creating onsite installations with silk flowers, paint, a variety of pins, thumbtacks and nails. I also incorporate the silhouette of my body in the center as something that guides and visually holds the entire piece together. Given the universality of the materials I use, I feel that it doesn’t matter who sees the installation, children/adults alike, everyone will find resonance, vibrancy and rhythm, even if they are not looking for it. It is there. The colors, the movement, the floral composition will pull and invite them in, to be face to face with it, as they naturally will inter-be with one another.
Photo Credit: Walter-Wlodaczyk
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Blanka Amezkua is a Mexican-American Latinx artist, cultural promoter, educator, and project creator based in the South Bronx with exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Taller Boricua, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, San Diego Art Institute, and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Art Base, Brussels among others. Amezkua’s practice is greatly influenced and informed by folk art and popular culture, and in 2008 she began an artist-run project in her bedroom called the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (BBBP), which ran from 2008-2010. Blanka currently operates AAA3A (Alexander Avenue Apartment 3A) an alternative artist-run project which offers food, dialogue, workshops, and art in her living room. She is an active member of Running for Ayotzinapa 43, an international community of runners based in NYC that promotes dialogue and consciousness concerning human rights violations worldwide. Mentions of her work and projects can be found in various notable national and international publications.