Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Angel Quesada |
Title |
Far Away Home |
Date |
2007 |
Medium |
Serigraph |
Dimensions |
H-16 W-22 inches |
Dimensions |
16"x22" |
Description |
Raised in the Rio Grande Valley, artist Angel Quesada creates art through murals, paintings, drawings, photography, prints, and installations. In recent years, Quesada has been exploring the role that women play in society and further explores this concept in his print Far Away Home. In it, he depicts a woman in a car who is thoroughly concentrated on the conversation she is having on her cell phone. If the print looks like it is taken from an actual situation, it's because it is. Quesada happened to be driving home one day and noticed a woman in the back seat of vehicle engaged in her conversation on the phone without noticing her surroundings. In fact, the woman was so absorbed in her conversation that she did not even observe Quesada who, using the red light to his advantage, managed to draw a quick sketch of her. "Even though there was all this activity around her, the woman seemed to be in her own world, enclosed and protected by the car window," he says. "Like the protected woman in the print, women are also coveted by men, and, once they are possessed, women expect to be protected as well," he adds. The types of issues that exist within the relationships between men and women inspire Quesada when he creates his work. "As an artist, I feel that I have the responsibility to create art that allows people to take some sort of meaning from it," he says. Quesada attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts & Massachusetts College of Art where he studied Painting and Printmaking. |
Object Name |
Print, Screen |
Search Terms |
Gender Community/Society Domestic The Gaze |
Object Number |
2007.1.2 |
Collection |
Serie Project XIV |