ANA MARIA HERNANDO | Una pequeña inmensidad/A Small
Immensity

“For my textile works, the fields of color, texture, and pattern develop through a single gesture – weaving tulle – repeating over and over. Tulle, as a prototypically feminine material, is transformed into a somatic and visual abstraction that breaks the field of traditional painting by producing a subtle matrix of light and surface that shifts in dialogue with the viewer. Softness becomes less a discrete zquality and more a function of power, both formally and symbolically. I want to share my multi-disciplinary work by, using empathy to make the invisible visible. My art invites viewers to question our preconceptions of the other – including Nature and the earth – their worth, and their value. It is my deeply felt intention to illuminate the thirst of the heart, and what occurs behind the veil, the pattern and the labor of our lives.”

-Ana María Hernando

Ana María Hernando puts forth a feminine rejoinder to historical movements in abstraction with an organic response to the orderly mark-making of hard-edged geometric paintings, and to the flatness and tension pursued within the Color Field movement. Her framed, tulle fabric works unapologetically contradict and embrace the inherent lavishness of her medium in subtle and vivid palettes with an unconventional shape sensibility. At the recent 2024 conclusion of her multi-part installation at Madison Square Park Conservancy’s anniversary exhibition celebration in New York, Hernando is currently an integral part of the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ “New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024” exhibition. The included large-scale, emanating tulle sculpture entitled Nadar en el diluvio de aguas caldas/To Swim in the Deluge of Warm Waters holds both the museum wall and floor in grand scale in her signature expression of abundance and the power of the feminine.

Born in Argentina, Colorado artist Ana María Hernando, and a prestigious 2023 Joan Mitchel Fellow, has a BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA, a BS in Education from the Profesorado Eccleston in Buenos Aires, Argentina and studied at the Museum School in Boston, MA, and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón. Hernando’s multidisciplinary practice with textile influences has been recognized with numerous grants and awards including the Prix Henry Clews in Sculpture and a Resource Artist Fellowship at Redline. Her work has been shown throughout the US as well as internationally including in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, Château de La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule France, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO, International Center of Bethlehem, West Bank, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO and Building Bridges, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is included in private, public, and corporate collections such as the University of Colorado, Boulder, Nordstrom Corporation, San Francisco, CA and Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hernando group presentations include exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID, The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX, and the Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV (2026). and was featured in the 2019 documentary entitled “Undomesticated” by Amie Knox of A bar K Productions.  Hernando’s multi-sculpture installation entitled "To Let the Sky Know/ Dejar que el cielo sepa," was on view as part of the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s anniversary exhibition celebration in New York City and one of Hernando’s large-scale tulle “paintings” will be on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, D.C. New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 exhibition beginning April 14^, 2024.