A portrait by San Antonio artist Mari Hernandez is on display in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
Mari Hernandez views the portrait she made of Silia Lopez before a private viewing of the triannual Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in April.A single photograph of one person hanging on the wall of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington represents much more than it might first appear., who has regularly visited the Smithsonian Institution’s portrait-themed gallery since she was a child, the image represents a dream come true.
Sherman’s influence is evident in Hernandez’s use of elaborate costuming and prosthetics, which turn self-portraiture into an art of portraying the self as others. Dawkins and Hernandez chose a linear display of portraits printed on a gossamer material known as silk flax. When even the slightest air conditioning breeze flowed through the galleries, the seemingly historical portraits moved. Dawkins said the effect was eerie, fitting with Hernandez’s choice of the semi-transparent material to render her portraits as “ghostly apparitions,” emphasizing that history “remains” present, as her exhibition title suggests.
Prompted to consider land and geography for her commission, Hernandez said she made an “immediate connection to the first people of our region … highlighting our history, highlighting this community whose history is often pushed to the margins.” But when Hernandez saw the results, she knew the time had arrived to apply for the prestigious triannual portrait competition she had long sought to enter.
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