by Ana María Hernando
Artist Bio
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Colorado artist Ana María Hernando is a painter and a sculptor who loves fabrics and words. She is a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2020 Prix Henry Clews in Sculpture for La Napoule Art Foundation, with a one-year residency and major solo show at their château in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France, and First Prize for the 2021 Biennial of the Americas. This year, her solo show To Let the Sky Know \ Dejar que el cielo sepa, at Madison Square Park, New York, inaugurated the twentieth anniversary Madison Square Park Conservancy’s public art program. She is representing Colorado in the National Museum of Women in the Art’s New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, Washington, DC. She has had solo exhibitions in national and international museums and galleries and is represented by Robischon Gallery, Denver, and Gallery Elle, Zürich, Switzerland. She lives and works in Denver.
Learn more at www.anamariahernando.com and on Instagram: @anamariahernandoart
Project Design
Art and transit come together in a partnership project welcoming visitors to a visual and auditory experience while visiting the Rubey Park transit hub, waiting for a bus, picking up a WE-cycle or passing through the Cooper Street Mall.
The project features both sculptural works and poems written and recorded by the artist in English and Spanish. My Longing Doesn’t Quiet / Mi añoranza no se calla is a pilot program of the City of Aspen's Public Art Plan, presented by the Red Brick Center for the Arts in partnership with the Transportation Department and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.
Artistic Vision
“We are thirsty for a wild kindness, desperately in need of simple beauties, to be nurtured with goodness, to awaken from darkness,” says Hernando.
These words are at the heart of all artmaking for the multi-disciplinary artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Denver who created the site-specific intervention. Hernando’s installation of sculptures and poems, woven from a sense of abundance, speak to the unstoppable life force that connects us all — to nature and to each other. Their appearance at busy junctures in downtown Aspen is intended to offer moments of joy and reflection during the daily movement of life.
For the Aspen project, Hernando has created a wide-ranging work that responds not only to the Rubey Park facility and nearby Sister Cities Plaza, but also to Aspen’s colors, light and diverse community.
Listen to the artist reading her poems
My Longing Doesn’t Quiet / Mi añoranza no se calla is presented by the Red Brick Center for the Arts and the Aspen Public Art Plan, in partnership with the City of Aspen Transportation Department and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, with in-kind support from Stutsman Gerbaz Earthmoving, and installation service by Alpine Art Logistics. A portion of this installation — the sculptures at Sister Cities Plaza — first appeared as To Let the Sky Know \ Dejar que el cielo sepa, which was originally commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, and was first exhibited in Madison Square Park. We appreciate the support and collaboration with Madison Square Park Conservancy.
