THIS SITE FEATURES PROJECTS FROM THE INDIVIDUAL STUDIOS OF LISA + JANELLE IGLESIAS
AND WORK BY LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS, OUR COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK
AND WORK BY LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS, OUR COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK
The moniker LAS HERMANAS IGLESIAS speaks to our identity as woven into histories and philosophies of feminism, multiplicity, and collaboration. As the children of Norwegian and Dominican immigrants born and raised in Queens, our multidisciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities. Our collective has fluidly evolved to include a number of team efforts and variations including steady collaborations with our mother, Bodhild. Through employing playful structures that respond to the community and geographical context of each project, Las Hermanas Iglesias create artworks that resist a signature aesthetic, disrupt borders, engage absurdity, and promote the benefits of working together.
LISA (she, they) is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art Studio at Mount Holyoke College. Her projects incorporate expansive histories and potentials of drawing and painting, take into consideration the translation of patterns, images and gestures across materials, and reflect her role as a caregiver. Her work has been supported by NYFA and residencies at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, among others. Lisa divides her time between Western Mass and Queens, NY.
JANELLE (she, they) is an Assistant Professor of Studio in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and works on site-responsive projects in a variety of contexts. Her work is invested in the metaphors, history and agency of objects/materials. An alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, her work has been supported by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Jerome Foundation- through which Janelle conducted research on bowerbirds in the rainforests of West Papua.
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