By Katie White
If asked to name a Latin American woman artist most people would probably cite Frida Kahlo. But now that the Mexican artist’s show at the Brooklyn Museum has come to a close, it seems like an opportune time to turn our focus to a few of the many contemporary Latin American women artists who have solo exhibitions open right now. Tackling subjects ranging from bodily autonomy to material gestalt, here are three artists you should know.
Over more than three decades, Brazilian artist Frida Baranek has twisted, soldered, and tangled industrial materials to create sculptures that explore tensions in states of being. Baranek’s new exhibition “Liminality” at Galeria Raquel Arnaud delves deeper into questions of materiality and space with large-scale ribbon sculptures composed of the metal screening typically found in household windows and civil construction.
