Lucia Hierro's “Rack: Platanitos” Acquired By El Museo Del Barrio, New York City
Lucia Hierro, Rack: Platanitos, Digital print on brushed nylon, foam, and powder-coated aluminum, 144 x 15.5 x 4 inches, 2019
Charlie James Gallery is delighted to announce acquisitions of works from Lucia Hierro’s Mercado series by El Museo del Barrio in New York City.
An installation of four twelve-foot Rack pieces was recently exhibited in Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21, El Museo del Barrio's first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art featuring more than 40 artists from across the United States and Puerto Rico. The Racks are a component of Lucia’s ongoing Mercado series, made in direct response to Donald Judd’s Stacks from 1967. While the Racks liberate themselves from their original utility as their Pop and Minimalist forebears did, the Racks summon an unmistakable sense of socio-economic position located specifically in the neighborhood bodega. As such they become markers of economic identity and emblematic of the microeconomies of Lucia’s Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City. The gallery wishes to thank Rodrigo Moura, Susanna Temkin and the entire team at El Museo del Barrio for their generous support of Lucia and her work.
Lucia Hierro (b. 1987) is a Dominican American conceptual artist born and raised in New York City, Washington Heights/ Inwood, and currently based in the South Bronx. Lucia’s practice, which includes sculpture, digital media and installation, confronts twenty-first century capitalism through an intersectional lens. She received a BFA from SUNY Purchase (2010) and an MFA from Yale School of Art (2013). Hierro’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York), Latchkey Projects (New York), Primary Projects (Miami), Sean Horton Presents (Dallas), and Casa Quien in the Dominican Republic. Her works reside in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Perez Art Museum Miami, the JP Morgan & Chase Collection, the Progressive Art Collection and the Rennie collection in Vancouver, among others. In 2021, Lucia’s work has been exhibited in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio’s (NY) first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art featuring more than 40 artists from the US and Puerto Rico, and she is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT titled Marginal Costs. Lucia is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
