[ Artwork description: A flag with Spanish text and four images is depicted against a gold and red background of hearts with crosses. The top image depicts two children holding a Puerto Rican flag and looking at the camera. Underneath, there are three images: the leftmost depicts a bearded person in a hat holding some equipment, the middle image depicts an upside-down bald eagle, and the final image depicts the legs of an unidentified person. ]
Juan Sanchez
Prayer and Struggle , 1990
Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Lithograph and serigraph on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 30 in. (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
Accession #: 19941110
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Marijo Dougherty
Related Exhibition:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
Copyright: © Juan Sanchez
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Juan Sánchez (b. 1954, American)
is one of the most influential Nuyorican
artists who came to prominence alongside
a generation of LatinX artists working
in New York in the 1980s and 1990s
such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez-
Peña, and Pepón Osorio. Sanchez
creates mixed-media collages that
combine photography, painting, media
clippings, and found objects. Exploring
questions of ethnic, racial, and national identity, Sánchez’s work draws from his
personal history and addresses the U.S.
occupation of his parents’ homeland
and the bifurcated life of Puerto Ricans
in America.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
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