Artist Research Assignment

Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-American artist born in 1962. Her work revolves around the problems with colonization in Latin American culture as well as aesthetics and cultural survival. Velarde’s motivation is she is familiar with Latin American history and she wants to change the fact that populations like hers are mostly followers and observers. Velarde earned her degree at Hunter University of the City in New York. She has received grants and awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship for her work. Her style seems to be very detailed and easy to depict what’s going on in the piece, but not necessarily realistic. The people in her sculptures are very real looking, but the way the sculptures are designed is unrealistic. I chose this artist because I loved the message of this pottery. These works struck me as pieces that signified and represented something that was important and I love the way the art is set up.

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