Frances Gallardo

Contents

San Juan, P.R.

1984

Biographical information

Draftswoman and creator of installations. Obtained a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Cornell University (2016) and a bachelor’s degree in Drawing and Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico (2008). Gallardo’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally in venues such as the Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles), the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (San Juan), and the Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn). Participation in artist residencies include Latin American Roaming Art (Panama City), Caribbean Linked (Oranjestad), The Center for Book Arts (New York) and La Practica, Beta-Local (San Juan). Gallardo has received several awards, including the Lexus Emerging Artists Scholarship and the NYSCA Community Artists Scholarship. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Puerto Rico Museum of Art and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has experimented with numerous materials, especially paper, with pastel, cutwork, and collage techniques.

Contents

Artworks

Desbordado

Date:

2018

Dimensions:

37” x 110”

Mixed medium

Medium:

Laser cut paper, collage

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Private

Exploration 1

Date:

2019

Dimensions:

21 ½” x 25 ¼”

Mixed medium

Medium:

Collage. Seized photograph on marbled paper

Genre:

Abstract

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Private

Flying Dust Carpet Resting on Mountains

Date:

2018

Dimensions:

8’ x 20’

Installation

Medium:

Pins, silk thread, laser engraved paper on the wall. Images of dust samples taken in San Juan and brought to the nano scale by Simge Uzun of the Fiber Science Department, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Unicornio en la isla

Date:

2014

Dimensions:

3' x 32'

Sculpture

Medium:

Openwork paper, ink and graphite on the wall. Marble sculpture designed by Frances Gallardo, executed by Ramón Berríos

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Murmuration

Date:

2016

Dimensions:

6'diámeter

Installation

Medium:

Laser engraved paper an pins on wall

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Watchtower

Date:

2013

Dimensions:

16' x 16'

Installation

Medium:

Openwork paper, vinyl and canvas, acrylic, graphite and pastel on wood panel

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

The Unnamed (Hurricane routes)

Date:

2018

Dimensions:

30" diámeter

Painting

Medium:

Cotton embroidery

Genre:

Abstract

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Private

Hurricane Soundscape

Date:

2012

Dimensions:

Drawer: 15” x 16” x 8”, Discs: 13” diámetro, Table: 18” x 48” x 30”

Installation

Medium:

Wood, openwork paper, mother of pearl, motor, Arduino, photosensors, speakers. Technical collaboration with Jeffrey Concepción

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Marejada

Date:

2012

Dimensions:

65” x 52” x 15”

Sculpture

Medium:

Aluminum

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

Daniel

Date:

2018

Dimensions:

24 ½” x 28 ¼”

Mixed medium

Medium:

Graphite on openwork paper and collage

Genre:

Contemporary

Period:

21st Century

Collection:

Private

Artist statement

«For me, sometimes, is literally like a cross because I carry it with me where ever I go and weighs as much as a trunk but is an amazing material (paper), there is so much variety, you can cut it, manipulate it, take it to the three-dimensional.» It is a very plastic, recyclable material, its malleability, its plasticity; it is something that strikes me very much. Reacts quickly to what you do. My work in, some ways, is always about lots of effort, patience».

Source: Toro, Ana Teresa. La muchacha de los huracanes, El Nuevo Día, Cultura, 27 de agosto de 2013

Training

Education

2016

Master in Fine Arts, Major in Studio Art. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States

2009-2010

Studies in Drawing and Painting. Art Students League of New York, New York, United States

2008

Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts and Humanities. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2005

Student Exchange. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Professional Experience

2017

Artist Residency. Latin American Roaming Art (LARA), Panama City, Panama

2016

Artist Residency. Caribbeann Linked IV – Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba

2014

Artist Residency. Taller Vivo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2012

Artist Residency. Workspace AIR, The Center for Books, New York, United States

2011

Artist Residency. La práctica, Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010-2011, 2008

Administrator. Museo La Casa del Libro, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2009

Artist Residency. Papelón, Paper Mill, San Juancito, Honduras

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2014

Meteorology, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

2012

Meteoro, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Public Art

2019

Line to line, MTA Arts & Design “Percent for Art”, Mount Vernon, New York, United States

Goup Shows

2019- present

Puerto Rico Plural, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2020

Rising Water, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Anarquía y dialéctica en el deseo: Mujeres artistas de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2019

Return to Entry: Interpreting Purdue’s Space Exploration Archives, Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Whose Vestiges Subsist, LES Gallery, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, United States
Puerto Rico In/Ex, Art Gallery @ GCC, Glendale Community College, Glendale, California, United States

2018

Weather, Lines, Video and Tape, Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
PM, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Correspondencia/Correspondence: exposición de arte correo, El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2017

Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Wallach Art Gallery; Delaware Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Frost Art Museum, United States
En 63M2, Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
GALLERY Chicago, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States
LARA Residency Exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama
Landscape / Horizonte, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States

2016

1st International Academic Printmaking Alliance Invitational Exhibition, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
In situ: perspectivas del paisaje en las Grandes Antillas, Museo de Arte Dr. Pío López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico
The Winds Never Stop: Caribbean Linked IV Artist-in-Residence Exhibition – Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
Caribes: una nueva mirada hacia nuestro Caribe, Museo de Arte, Caribbean University, Bayamón, Puerto Rico

2015

Displaced Images / Images in Space: IV Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Then and now: Ten Years of Residencies at The Center for Book Arts of New York, The Center for Book Arts, New York, United States

2014

Caribbean: Crossroads of the world, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, United States
Taller Vivo: El unicornio en la isla: 100 años de Lorenzo Homar, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Interconexiones: Lecturas Curatoriales de la Colección del MAPR, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
CCC: Caribes, Casa Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2013

Puerto Rico: puerta al paisaje, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Resident Artists 2012, The Center for Book Arts of New York, New York, United States
Muestra Nacional de Arte, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Beca Lexus 2012, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Impresiones, relieves y resonancias, Museo de Arte Dr. Pío López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, Cayey, Puerto Rico

2012

Of Dreams and Hurricanes, Praxis International Art Chelsea, New York, United States
III Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, El Panal, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Caribe Now, Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Diaspora, Nathan Cummings Foundation, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
Esfoto 12, La Casa Tomada, San Salvador, El Salvador

2011

For Love, Not Money, XVth Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
Pocket, Cart Watch, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
XNOX Art Auction, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2010

Valoarte, Centro Nacional de Arte, San José, Costa Rica
Muestra Nacional de Arte, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2009

II Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lip/stick, Praxis International Art, New York, United States

2008

Giving, an art action, El Museo del Barrio at PINTA, LatinAmerican Contemporary Art Fair, New York, United States
En sus marcas: pintura de los 90’ y 00’ en Puerto Rico, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Valoarte, Centro Nacional de Cultura, San José, Costa Rica
Cataño D.C, Cataño, Puerto Rico
Angora 2.08, Caguas, Puerto Rico
Acciones y música experimental, Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Awards, distinctions and achievements

2018

Grant. New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) Artist in Community Grant, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, New York, United States
Nomination. Cisneros Fontanals Foundation for Emerging Artist Grant, Miami, Florida, United States

2017

Nomination. Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, New York, United States

2016

Award. Charles Baskerville Award for Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, Nuew York, United States
Nomination. Cisneros Fontanals Foundation for Emerging Artist Grant, Miami, Forida, United States

2013

Nomination. AICA- Puerto Rico Chapter: Best Curatorial Project, Elvis Fuentes, Meteoro, Frances Gallardo, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2012

Grant. Beca Lexus para Artistas, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010

Grant by Nomination. Emerging artist grant 2010, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States

2008

Medal of Excelence in Drawing. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collections

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, United States
Colección Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico
MTA Arts & Design, New York, United States
The Center for Book Arts, New York, United States
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Asiaciti Trust, Australia

Bibliography

Books

Nogueras, Celina. Frescos: 50 artistas puertorriqueños menores de 35, San Juan, PR: Muuaaa, 2010.

Catalogues

Noriega, Rebeca; Cullen Deborah. El Panal / The Hive, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012.

Noriega, Rebeca. En sus marcas. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2008.

Newspapers

Barnett Sánchez, Sylvia. “La seducción en el arte”. Diario la Prensa (Nueva York, EEUU), 21 de junio de 2009, p.23.

Delgado, José, “Meteorología puertorriqueña en la zona de Washington”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), Febrero 2014.

Irizarry, Yoryie. “De sueños y huracanes”. En rojo, Claridad ( San Juan , PR), 2012.

Rodríguez, Jorge. “Se enciende el panal en la Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan”. Escenario Weekend, El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 22 de abril de 2012.

Toro, Ana Teresa. “La muchacha de los huracanes”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de agosto de 2013.

Toro, Ana Teresa. “Promesas de papel, fotos y sonido”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 20 de septiembre de 2012.

Toro, Ana Teresa. “Trío de artistas jóvenes obtiene la Beca Lexus”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 19 de septiembre de 2012.

Toro Ana Teresa. “Literalmente, el arte de dar”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 7 de enero de 2011.

Magazines

Hartup, Cheryl. “Meteoro”, ArtNexus, No. 88, March 2013.

Muñoz, Julieta. “…de la Trienal Poli/Grafica: El Panal/The Hive y un contrapunto”, Revista Cruce, Abril 2012.

Ingrid M. Jiménez, PhD. “Transformación a través del papel”, Diálogo, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Noviembre-Diciembre, 2009, pp. 18.

Web

Dávila Villa, Úrsula. “Artist’s Space: Puerto Rico’s Art Scene: Not Only Reggaeton Gets Your Heartbeat.

Racing!”, …might be good, Ejournal, Marzo 2011.

Otero, Carlos Antonio. “Frances Gallardo: Tejedora de huracanes”, El naufragio de las palabras, Junio 2011.

Ramos Gutiérrez, Diana. “La estética de la nostalgia”, Periódico Conboca. Junio 2012.

Ramos, Sabrina. “Supremacía del caos”, Visión Doble, Noviembre 2013.

Laberinto: Conciencia espiritual

Armando Reverón

Recuelgue

El lugar de la morada