Primer Premio

On Friday, May 21 in the Office of Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields officers of the Angel Orensanz Foundation announced the winners of their 4th International Angel Orensanz Foundation Art Award.

Winners by majority of jury votes:

Suarez-Chamorro (Spain)
Dennis Nona (Australia)

http://orensanzaward.com/juryresults.html

Suarez-Chamorro (Spain)
jury comments:

"Drawing the relationship between gender, iconic religion character,
vocations, and class-ism through the historical and cultural paradigms which illustrates a contemporary narrative allowing accesses for the public or viewer to engage in one or the multitude of meaning set forth in the situation of the piece."

"This collage reflects, to my own Latin eye, a true rendering of the broken heritage of Latin America- the Queen Mother (bee) imbedded in a sad cathedral of fractured odds and ends of materials of various origin and texture. The Spanish style dress and wood frame's arched fragment speak of a donned femininity, a desperate attempt to raise the indigenous mother culture. It's important to remember the displacement of ancestral religious heritage by war and conquest, and this image speaks powerfully of genocide by whites and the embrace of hope by the indigenous native, despite a tragic cultural history."