Flying Dust Carpet Resting on Mountains
Date 2018
Dimensions 8’ x 20’
Category Installation
Medium Pins, silk thread, laser engraved paper on the wall. Images of dust samples taken in San Juan and brought to the nano scale by Simge Uzun of the Fiber Science Department, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
Genre Contemporary
Period 21st Century
Acknowledgement Photo provided by 516 Arts

Frances Gallardo

"Flying Dust Carpet Resting on Mountains" (2018)

Description

Biography

Draftswoman and creator of installations. Obtained a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Cornell University (2016) and a bachelor's degree in Drawing and Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico (2008). Gallardo's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally in venues such as the Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles), the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (San Juan), and the Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn). Participation in artist residencies include Latin American Roaming Art (Panama City), Caribbean Linked (Oranjestad), The Center for Book Arts (New York) and La Practica, Beta-Local (San Juan). Gallardo has received several awards, including the Lexus Emerging Artists Scholarship and the NYSCA Community Artists Scholarship. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Puerto Rico Museum of Art and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has experimented with numerous materials, especially paper, with pastel, cutwork, and collage techniques.