About
Erick Alejandro Hernández is an artist from Cuba living and working in Miami, FL and Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2017) and has been a fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017), Oxbow School of Art (2018), and The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2018-19'). In addition, he has received a Scholastics Awards Alumni Micro-grant (2019) and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2019).
"Revolving around
overarching narratives such as a car crash or the death of a loved one, my
paintings are orchestrations of memories that have been fractured or reimagined
in processes surrounding lived trauma. Rooted in traditional image making, my
practice intends to disrupt classical vignettes within the genre of painting by
inserting personages and spaces that are in flux. I populate my images with
figures and amalgamations of figures from my own experience in order to explore
various simultaneous histories of loss and displacement. In collecting from my
own life and those around me I am able to emulate the labor of locating these
bodies in a realm of physical and allegorical exile from representations of
culture and home. As such, I am able to locate my own place amongst them."