Untitled (Sarajevo Wall Segment, 1993-1994) is a limited edition silkscreen print of a drawing by Lebbeus Woods from the “War and Architecture” series, which was originally shown at Storefront for Art and Architecture in 1994 as part of Lebbeus Woods: Freescape Projects. “Architecture must learn to transform the violence,” Woods would write later in War and Architecture (1997), “even as violence knows how to transform the architecture.” Lebbeus Woods - Untitled (Sarajevo Wall Segment, 1993–1994)
Over the last decade, Meléndez has honed her practice in ceramics and has begun to exhibit her work internationally.Įxtensión familiar 2009-2012, a series of ceramics and photographs by Bosques and Meléndez, is part of the permanent collection of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico.
In 1993, she completed her Doctorate in Education from the Interamerican University. in Environmental Planning, 1977, from the University of Puerto Rico. She studied Business Administration, 1970 and received an M.A. 1949 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) is a ceramicist who found her creative talents more recently in life. Recent presentations include: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, 2019 Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018 LAXART, Los Angeles, 2017 Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, 2017 Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, 2017.Įlba Meléndez (b. He studied arts at The Cooper Union in New York City, 2008, and holds a masters in film directing from UCLA in Los Angeles, 2015. 1985 San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an artist with a visual language that explores the plurality and subjective nature of experiences. Meléndez constructed and painted each house with a unique design, created in a manner that reflects the improvisational building techniques of the island. This project is expanded upon through Bosques’s collaboration with his mother, who took on ceramics after her son moved to the United States as a student. The edition continues the artist’s exploration of architectural demarcations and their social role within a larger context. This construction process goes very slowly, as if permanently on pause, leaving each house as a humble facade of hope. Typically built upon over time due to constrained resources, the cinder blocks stacked over the roof signal aspirations to expand and grow. The edition pays homage to single-family housing with unfinished construction, a common sight in the Puerto Rican landscape. Extensión familiar by Javier Bosques is a series of model-scale ceramic houses drawn from memory and made in collaboration with the artist’s mother, Elba Meléndez.