Permanent Residents | Alexander Hernandez

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Permanent Residents, Alexander Hernandez (San Francisco, CA).
March 2017. Soft sculptures, video. Found fabric, miscellaneous objects.

Hernandez’s works investigate displacement by creating sculptures and installations that migrate, occupy, and roam the museum. As a whole, the series, Guests, Spirits, Permanent Residents and Untitled, references populations that live on the fringes of society, constantly in a mode of survival.

Soft sculpture figures titled Permanent Residents migrated to the Glass Forest installation, mirroring Hernandez’s experience of becoming a US citizen. The Permanent Residents prompt artists who move Hernandez’s figures to think about displacement.

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Alexander Hernandez
Alexander Hernandez

Alexander Hernandez loves using scrap fabrics, remnants of unfinished projects, personal belongings, found objects, and traditional textiles. He sews, paints, embroiders, layers and patches these mediums together using traditional needlework and DIY punk crafting techniques. His work explores gender expectations, cultural assimilation, Queer affinity, immigrant diaspora, gentrification, and navigating multiple identities.He received his BFA (2007) in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO and his MFA (2012) at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. His work has been shown in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Orlando, and Ontario, Canada. He is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

During his residency at Elsewhere, Hernandez created four related projects: Guests, Spirits, Permanent Residents and Untitled.

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