What My Mother Told Me: the Art of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons May 17, 2011

Always in the art of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, there is a balance between the story, the content of the work, and her delight in the aesthetic and technical explorations she undertakes. She considers herself to be a painter and she makes color choices in the objects and videos used in the work, but she adds the elements of time and dimension to her imagery. She revels in the nature of the sculptural materials she selects, the transparency of glass, and the addition of time and movement with videos and the movement of viewers through works. She is telling layered complex, extended, improvised stories about her family, herself, her Cuban being and the passions in her life.