Virtual Textile Talk with Alexander Hernandez
Presented by San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (SJMQT) , New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) and Palo Alto Art Center
Alex Hernandez, “Always Thinking About Yesterday” 2021.
Detail, Alex Hernandez, “Always Thinking About Yesterday” 2021.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Date: Wednesday, April 27 | 11am - 12pm PDT
Location: Virtual Zoom
Tickets: Free
Alex Hernandez, 3 Faces of a Boy (2019)
Join us for a conversation with Alexander Hernandez, a textile and mixed media artist whose vibrant quilted works explore issues of gender, immigration, and cultural assimilation with dynamic and creative techniques. In this hour-long discussion, Hernandez will discuss his most recent work as the inaugural Artist in Residence at NUMU. He will highlight his experimental approach to textiles utilizing non-traditional materials and techniques such as spray paint, found objects, and an accentuation of rips, stains and loose threads.
This program is in support of NUMU’s inaugural Artist in Residence exhibition featuring Hernandez (June 4 -Oct 9, 2022). Hernandez’ work is currently on view in SJMQT’s 45th Anniversary exhibition New Directions (on view through July 3), which showcases recent acquisitions and new work from the Museum’s Artist in Residence program, including Alex Hernandez’s 3 Faces of a Boy (2019). This event also supports the artist’s current activities, including his artist residency, and his participation in the Palo Alto Art Center’s exhibition, Creative Attention: Art and Community Restoration (on view through May 21).
About Alex Hernandez
Alex Hernandez is a mixed-media artist who currently resides in Redwood City, California. Born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, and raised in Grand Junction, Colorado, he received his BFA in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (2007), and an MFA in Studio Art from California College of the Arts (2012).
Hernández has participated in art residencies at MASS MoCA, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Root Division in San Francisco; Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; and the Vermont Studio Center, among others. In 2021 he was interviewed by Latinx Spaces and had a solo show at FLXST Contemporary in Chicago. He will be the inaugural artist in residence at New Museum Los Gatos in June 2022. In addition to being an artist, Hernandez is also a social worker who helps displaced LGBTQ youth in San Francisco find housing.
