Ana Hernandez

Trance

2021

Ana Hernandez Ana Hernandez is a visual artist currently living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a founding member of Level Artist Collective and was nominated for and awarded Artist Residencies by Joan Mitchell Foundation, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and The Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans. Her work has been exhibited in New Orleans at The New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, The Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, A Studio in the Woods, Newcomb Art Museum, Xavier University, Stella Jones Gallery, among others. She has also shown nationally in Philadelphia, PA; Durham, NC; Wichita, KS; Richmond, VA; New York City, NY; and Chicago, IL. “By calling attention to boundaries and barriers, both natural and man-made, social and political, and within public and private spaces – and through the examination of authentic representations of a time and its peoples and culture – I seek to reveal the unseen, the unspoken, the unfamiliar, the unknown, and the overlaying histories found in and around these intersections. I am interested in the reclaiming and reframing of ageold narratives, told from perspectives driven by conquest and colonization and centered on the commodification and consumption of a people and a place. I am particularly concerned with highlighting abuses of power, specifically against marginalized communities of color, and in bringing attention to teaching tools of assimilation, indoctrination, and erasure that have contributed to oppression and disenfranchisement through exploitation and extraction. Most importantly, I am interested in the continual development of a research-based practice from which I can obtain information, document connections, and create from patterns of alignment. It is my hope that through this work I may contribute to conversations that are central to collective healing through social change.” – Ana Hernandez