Ana Maria Hernando makes paintings, drawings and prints with a layering of natural and formal elements. Designs taken from the mantillas and mantones worn for church and the festivities of her Spanish background are blended with images of flowers, plants and insects. For several years Ana Maria has been painting flowers, attracted to their graceful beauty, their reminder of how glorious a life can be, and death a dignified and certain affair. The colors she invents give her pleasure immersing herself in their forms, following their lines and the little movements that make a pose. Hernando says these are “reminders of the playfulness of sensuality and spirituality, the fullness and the sparseness, the rules and the inspirations.”
Hernando’s most recent print is “CUANDO LA LUNA Y EL CIELO HABLAN DE FLORES / WHEN THE MOON AND THE SKY TALK ABOUT FLOWERS”.
In January 2024, Hernando will have a solo exhibition—To Let the Sky Know / Dejar que el cielo sepa—at the Madison Square Park in New York.
“I find there is something unique about the park: so many make it their place of solace, a social space throughout the seasons, their touch with the undomesticated. I feel a ray of grace for the possibility to be in conversation with them, to be close through color, the movement of tulle in the wind, and the surprise of an unexpected newness. We are thirsty for a wild kindness, desperately in need of simple beauties, to be nurtured with goodness, to awaken from darkness. As I consider this installation, I hope it can inspire us to stay nourished by life’s force, to not abandon dreams, to remain graceful in the heart and innocent enough to fall in love.”
Ana Maria Hernando has shown her work in Argentina and the United States. In June 2016 she had a one person exhibition Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers at the Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder.
In 2011 she had a one person exhibition at the Kemper at the Crossroads, Kansas City, MO.
In 2009 she created an installation made from colorful Peruvian hand-crocheted petticoats for the Projects Gallery at MCA Denver. She participated in the Denver Biennial 2010 with two installations within the “Liberadores/Liberators” exhibition at the Museo de las Americas, Denver. In 2005, she was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, in Colorado.
Her work is in private and corporate collections, including The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth; MN, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA; Hallmark Corporation, Kansas City, MO; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and the Fundacion Banco Patricios, in Buenos Aires.
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More information can be found at Ana Maria’s website, www.anamariahernando.com.
