La Guadalupe
Primary
Scherezade García
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1966–Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas, present)
Date2011
MediumColored pencil, ink, and acrylic on paper
DimensionsFramed: 54 1/2 x 41 in. (138.4 x 104.1 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gilberto Cárdenas Collection, Museum Acquisition Fund, 2022.74
Rights Statement
Collection AreaLatino Art
Object number2022.74
On View
Not on viewScherezade Garcia is a prolific multimedia artist who critiques and reflects on colonial histories, cultural displacement, and memory. This version of La Guadalupe was the reference for her subsequent screenprint of the same name, commissioned by Cárdenas and Garcia as part of a Virgin-themed annual Christmas print series. The represented scene reconceives the Virgen de Guadalupe, a miraculous, brown-skinned Marian apparition that materialized before the Indigenous man Juan Diego in 1531 at the hill of Tepeyac in Mexico. Black Marian imagery has a legacy spanning hundreds of years across the globe. Yet Garcia’s approach to this lore has an outlook of resilience, since her reimagined Virgin challenges the Spanish empire’s desire for native assimilation. The artist’s signature Baroque aesthetics, accented in gold, pinks, and blues, frames La Guadalupe and translates the intertwined Indigenous and Spanish foundations of the Virgin’s origins.
Exhibitions
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