Detail View: Art and Art History Student Work:
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Image File Name:
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vrc_20150112_037
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Image Record ID:
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aahi0013234
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Work Title (display):
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Surveyor and Laborer
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Image Title:
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detail view
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Work Description:
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Artist's Statement: There is a saying in Spanish that my mother once told me: “Que tus sueños sean más grandes que tus miedos (May your dreams be greater than your fears).” What if my dreams are the same as my fears? Having a child is expected within my family’s culture, and I feel the pressure as over thirty of my cousins start families. For some women, uncontrollable circumstances can impact this cultural expectation. I wonder about my capacity for motherhood even as I long for it. I fear loneliness and the absence of something to care for. As I conceal intimate moments and reveal joyous hopes, I ponder stress through daily rituals of hair loss and investigate the human embryo in different stages of its creation through abstraction. I find visual simplicity romantic, stimulating and beautiful, like an effortless reflection of light off a metallic surface. My work uses aesthetic language as a way to contemplate fear and longing. Through making, I translate my fears into optimism by creating works that attempt to fill my voids. The work embraces the idea of coddling and nurturing, and these acts are performed through making and transferred from maker to object to viewer in hopes of capturing love and empathy, as one would feel for a child.
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Work Dates (display):
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2014
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Work Dates type:
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creation
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Work Creator (display):
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Blanca Guerra (American, born 1988)
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Work Creator gender:
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
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Written thesis: https://aahvrc.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/s/37fp79
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Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
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MFA 2014, Art and Art History
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Work Creator memberOf:
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Ceramics student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
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Work Creator memberOf notes:
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IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices
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Work Subject:
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Polycystic ovary syndrome
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Work Subject:
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maternity
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Work Subject:
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culture
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Work Subject:
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fear
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Work Subject:
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children (people by age group)
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Work Subject:
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fertility
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Work Worktype:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
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drawings
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Work Worktype:
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watercolor paintings
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Work Worktype:
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ceramics (objects)
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Work Worktype:
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
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installations (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
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installations (exhibitions)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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ceramics
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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paintings
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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drawings
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
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watercolor, ink on paper, ceramic, glaze, luster, wood
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Work Measurements (display):
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22 in (H) x 21 in (W) x 5.5 in (D)
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Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
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University of Colorado, Boulder. Art Museum
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Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
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exhibition
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Work Location (Geographic) name:
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Boulder, Colorado
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Image Rights (display):
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© Blanca Guerra
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Work Rights (display):
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© Blanca Guerra
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Holding Institution:
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Collection:
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Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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Collection info and contact:
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For information about this collection, see
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