Ana Maria Hernando
Sueño con Despertarme

Ana Maria Hernando was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado. The work in this exhibition, on canvas, paper and cloth, is the culmination of many years exploring the theme of flowers. In a statement she has written about this series of work she expresses, “Flowers are my inspiration. They are sensual, delicate, quiet, and beautiful. I see them as the utmost expression of a plant. This full personality, this being in the world is sex, life that pounds. Flowers appear to me as layers, and the layers of my paintings arise in me as flowers unfolding. The vulnerability and vibration of them startle me awake, and connect me with death. I find these flowers in my garden, in the embroidered mantones of the Spanish women, of my grandmothers.”  A part of this exhibition is the result of a collaboration with a group of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires who embroider designs created by the artist and which then become the basis for her installations.  Hernando shows her work internationally including, the Tweed Museum of Art, Naropa University, A.R.C Gallery in Chicago and Niko Gulland in Buenos Aires.