Overview
Pepon Osorio is an internationally recognized artist whose richly detailed installations challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions that shape our view of social institutions and human relationships. Osorio's colorful, often riotous installations are constructed from found objects and things that he customizes or creates. With a wry sense of humor, he probes sober topics, including prison life, domestic violence, AIDS, and poverty. Osorio's collaborative site-based works develop from his immersion into a community--residents of urban ethnic neighborhoods, employees who provide social services, children in foster care--and the discussions that result. As he addresses difficult themes such as race and gender, death and survival, and alienation and belonging, Osorio asks his audience to reconsider their assumptions and biases. In this book, Jennifer A. Gonzalez shows that although Osorio draws on his Puerto Rican background and the immigrant experience for inspiration, his artistic statements bridge geographical barriers and class divides. Osorio's installations have been exhibited internationally, and his work is represented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and other major museums. He has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1999.
Full Product Details
Author: Jennifer A. González
Publisher: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Imprint: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press
Dimensions:
Width: 2.50cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 16.50cm
Weight: 0.517kg
ISBN: 9780895511270
ISBN 10: 0895511274
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 01 August 2013
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p><br> Pepon Osorio provides an in-depth study of one of the leading installation artists working in the United States. Based in meaningful community collaboration, Osorio's installations employ ubiquitous material culture to explore how communities and individuals negotiate the legacy of colonialism and continued marginalization. The conceptual depth of his work finds its match in Jennifer Gonzalez, who teases out the many layers of Osorio's practice from his earliest stage-prop sculptures. Thoughtful and revealing, Pepon Osorio is a must read for scholars interested Latino, Puerto Rican, and installation art.<br><br>--E. Carmen Ramos, Curator for Latino Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum<br>
Pepon Osorio provides an in-depth study of one of the leading installation artists working in the United States. Based in meaningful community collaboration, Osorio's installations employ ubiquitous material culture to explore how communities and individuals negotiate the legacy of colonialism and continued marginalization. The conceptual depth of his work finds its match in Jennifer Gonzalez, who teases out the many layers of Osorio's practice from his earliest stage-prop sculptures. Thoughtful and revealing, Pepon Osorio is a must read for scholars interested Latino, Puerto Rican, and installation art. --E. Carmen Ramos, Curator for Latino Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Author Information
Jennifer A. Gonzlez teaches in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. She has written for numerous periodicals including Aztln, Frieze, Bomb, Camera Obscura, and Art Journal. Her book Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art was a finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award.
