Object Details
- Artist
- Gilberto Hernández, 1945 - 1985
- Sitter
- Jorge Soto Sánchez, 1947 - 13 Dec 1987
- Exhibition Label
- Born New York City
- Multi-media artist Jorge Soto Sánchez is recognized for fusing African and Caribbean motifs. Born amidst the urban precariousness of El Barrio, East Harlem, Soto Sánchez took refuge in art throughout his child hood. In 1971, he became involved with the artists and activists of El Taller Boricua, who advocated for the socio-political and cultural empowerment of Nuyoricans. Soto Sánchez promoted his Puerto Rican heritage by combining Taíno and Afro-Caribbean iconographies and reinterpreting paintings by Puerto Rican masters José Campeche (1751–1809) and Francisco Oller (1833–1917). By visually linking themselves to their ancestral roots, Soto Sánchez and members of El Taller sought to assert and celebrate their hybrid identities as diasporic Puerto Ricans. Gilberto Hernández made this poster for Soto Sánchez’s last major exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, an institution that, like El Taller, grew out of grassroots efforts to display Nuyorican art.
- Nacido en Nueva York
- El artista multimedia Jorge Soto Sánchez se caracterizó por fusionar motivos africanos y caribeños. Nacido en la precariedad del Barrio (East Harlem), se refugió en el arte desde niño. En 1971 se unió a los artistas y activistas del Taller Boricua, que propugnaban el empoderamiento sociopolítico y cultural de los nuyoricans. Para destacar su herencia, Soto Sánchez combinaba elementos iconográficos taínos y afrocari beños, y también reinterpretó pinturas de los maestros puertorriqueños José Campeche (1751–1809) y Francisco Oller (1833–1917). Al vincularse por medios visuales con sus raíces ancestrales, él y los miembros del Taller Boricua aspiraban a celebrar sus identidades híbridas como puertorriqueños de la diáspora. Gilberto Hernández hizo este cartel para la última exposición importante de Soto Sánchez en El Museo del Barrio, institución que, al igual que Taller Boricua, nació de esfuerzos de base popular por difundir el arte nuyorican.
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Gilberto Cárdenas Collection of Latino Art in honor of Angelo Falcón, 1951 - 2018
- 1979
- Object number
- NPG.2018.67
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © Gilbert Hernandez
- Type
- Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 74 × 42.5 cm (29 1/8 × 16 3/4")
- Image: 69.1 × 37 cm (27 3/16 × 14 9/16")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
- Jorge Soto Sánchez: Arts and Culture\Visual Arts\Artist
- Jorge Soto Sánchez: Male
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2018.67
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm48a59be1c-c5aa-4ecf-8bed-f75074cc755d
