Word: ortizes
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...Orleans native Cristina Ortiz ’10 and Richard Carapezza of Salt Lake City may hail from different parts of the country, but it was clear that the two regulars at the Cambridge Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had more than religion in common...
...Although Ortiz worked in all genres—producing recycled films and works in painting, sculpture, and performance—he was especially famous in the early 1960s for a series of works he called “Archaeological Finds.” In these works, he peeled away the outer layers of man-made objects such as mattresses, chairs, sofas, and pianos...
...according to Noriega, Ortiz has distinguished himself from other Latino-American artists in his concern for emotional roots...
...creator of El Museo del Barrio in New York City—the first Latino art museum in the United States—Ortiz is known for his involvement in the destructionist movement, which attempted to address what it saw as the social detachment of the post-War avant-garde...
...It’s fascinating,” said Cheryl J. Vince, who attended the event. “The rage, in some ways, that comes from not knowing who you are, I think, feeds a lot of that destructivism in art that [Ortiz] made his life of expression...