User:Ceelle21/Cristina Córdova

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"Cristina Córdova (b. 1976) is an American-born, Puerto Rican sculptor who works and lives in Penland, North Carolina."

Talk about process, most known for, brief summary of her work.

Then talk about subject matter and process

As an award winning artist who primarily sculpts in clay, she focuses her work on expressive, emotional, and sometimes fantastical human figural sculptures. These sculptures are inspired by her heritage, gender, politics, and the complexities of human relationships with their surroundings. [citation] "Magic realism, the predominantly Latin American literary genre, is physically manifested through the surrealistic environments Córdova's subjects inhabit." [40 under 40 citation]

Influenced by the Catholic iconography of her youth in San Juan, Córdova now aims to create figures of her "own pantheon" [citation] while trying to emulate a figure representative of and recognizable by her own culture. The sculptures are shown in a variety of poses, expressions, colors, textures, and sizes. Córdova has won many awards, exhibited her work broadly, and her work is owned by both domestic and international museums.

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** include some of her exhibitions, both solo and group (but not exhaustive) and awards. Maybe find some pictures