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Ana Tiscornia
On Location / In Situ
July 6 - September 10 2008
Opening: thursday july 3 2008 - 6pm the artist will be present

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Born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1951, she has been living in New York since 1991.

To oppose to silence and social oblivion, Ana Tiscornia uses fragments from everyday life. The protagonists are tools, pieces of furniture and common objects.
The same fragments recur in the series of works on paper, created for this solo exhibition, where the digital drawing confronts itself with the hand made one and the photography. The final result is a disordered collage that gives life to works with a deceptive and temporary character. Elegant assemblages of materials and objects taken from everyday light, set on various layers create multidimensional and dynamic surfaces. These works are rich and at the same time ethereal, they enchant and seem to wander in and undefined space.

Ana Tiscornia's works, similar to constructions that are on the point to fall down, convey a sense of vertigo and destruction, as her famous severed trees: thin black-painted branches speak of an amputated nature, of what remains after the war, the violence. In this manner, Tiscornia reproduces the disorder and the fall of illusions that characterize the contemporary world.


ESSENTIAL BIOGRAPHY:
Ana Tiscornia teaches visual arts at New York State University in Old Westbury and she is the art editor of "Point of Contact. The Journal of Verbal and Visual Arts", distributed by Syracuse University Press.
She cooperates with the spanish magazine Atlántica, the colombian Art Nexus and the uruguayan Brecha.
In 2002 she was present at III Bienal de Lima. (uruguayan representative) Lima, Peru
In 2006 she was present at IX Bienal de la Habana (Havana, Cuba)


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: In 2007 she showed Tuning, at Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, New York. USA
In 2005 she exhibited at Ernest Welch School of Art & Design Gallery. Georgia State University, at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina and at Centro Cultural España. Montevideo, (Uruguay)
In 2002 she exhibited at Sala Municipal de Exposiciones, IMM, Montevideo, (Uruguay)
She exhibited at Museo Histórico of Montevideo (1996) and at ICI, Instituto de Cultura Iberoamericano, Buenos Aires (1997).


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2008 Los Desaparecidos. Centro Cultural Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile. Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española en La Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
2007 Arte, deshonra y violencia en el contexto Latinoamericano. Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo, Uruguay.
      The Disappeared. El Museo del Barrio, New York
2006 Heard not Seen. Orchard, New York. USA.
2006 The Disappeared. Museo de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
2005 The Disappeared. North Dakota Museum of Art. Grand Forks, North Dakota.
2002 Interior-Exterior, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas. USA
2001 Politicas de la diferencia. Latin American traveling exhibition. Fundacao do Patrimonio Historico e artistico de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
      Museo de Arte Ltinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina
      Personal Recordings. Art Museum of the Americas, Washington. USA
2000 Como el Uruguay no hay. Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Juan Manuel Blanes. Montevideo, Uruguay.
      Women of the World. A Global Collection of Art. Flint Institute of Arts. Michigan, USA
      Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona. USA
1999 You Can't Go Home Again: The Art of Exile. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont USA
1998 Las invisibles, Women Artists of Uruguay. DePauw University, Emison Center, Greencastle Indiana. USA.
      Mouse, An American Icon. The Alternative Museum, New York. USA