Opening & Artist Talk: Elsa María Meléndez

Join us on Friday, September 30 for a gallery tour led by Elsa María Meléndez as she opens her first solo exhibition in the U.S., Vengo de una isla de confusión.

This exhibition of new and existing work by Elsa María Meléndez (Caguas, PR 1974) explores the intersection of political and personal identity. Meléndez experiments through different mediums, utilizing soft textiles, large-format embroidery, and serigraphs to create a body of work that traverses scale. Through large-scale fabric constructions, as well as small-scale dioramas the artist calls “theaters”, Meléndez creates narrative spaces that document the uncertainty one experiences while living in Puerto Rico, an “Island of Confusion.”