CRISTINA CÓRDOVA
CURRENT + RECENT EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
February 2 – May 12, 2019
CRISTINA CÓRDOVA: Del balcón
Cristina Córdova: JUNGLA
Cristina Cordóva, Jungla at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum
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Through my work I seek to generate figurative compositions that explore the boundary between the material driven, sensorial experience of an object and the psychological resonance of our involuntary dialogues with the self-referential.
I am driven by the primal act of imbuing an inanimate representation with a sense of presence, transforming it into the inspired repository of our deepest longings and aspirations. My goal is to have these compositions perform both as reflections of our shared humanity as well as question socio-cultural notions of gender, race, beauty and power.
CRISTINA CÓRDOVA: JUNGLA
At its most basic level Jungla refers to a region of dense, intractable wilderness that sustains an ongoing evolutionary dance governed by uncivilized forces. This tropical landscape of my youth is a beacon to an identity, tying me back to a specific geography and the sediment of generations. It’s unrelenting influence speaks of luscious yet ominous constructs that echo the socio-political conditions in the Caribbean. It’s unruly mystery seeps out of its confines to also serve as metaphor for a creative process anchored in that liminal space between chaos and balance. A practice that gathers significance amidst the subconscious forces that underpin reality and the firm directives of the ego. Through image and form, Jungla explores the relationship between these human and geographic connections.
CRISTINA CÓRDOVA
Cristina Córdova (b. 1976, Boston, MA, lives and works in Penland, North Carolina) completed her BA at the University of Puerto Rico in 1998, before arriving in the U.S. to receive her MFA in ceramics from Alfred University (NY) in 2002. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Grant, a Virginia Groot Foundation Recognition Grant, several International Association of Art Critics of Puerto Rico awards, and in 2015 a prestigious United States Artist Fellowship award.
In 2012, Córdova was included in the Renwick’s 40th anniversary exhibition, 40 Under 40: Craft Futures, and her most recent solo exhibition, Jungla was featured at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum in early 2018. Córdova’s work is in the permanent collection of numerous institutions, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), the Coleccion Acosta de San Juan Puerto Rico (PR), the Mint Museum of Craft + Design (NC), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (PR).
CERAMICS ARE EVERYWHERE
Cristina Córdova: Del balcón
MIDSUMMER AT PROJECT ART 2018
MASTER WORKS from PRIVATE COLLECTIONS On View & Available Online
MARA SUPERIOR featured at Project Art during HOST
Summer Events at Ferrin Contemporary & Project Art 2018
FC artists ON VIEW in museums May–July 2018
NCECA PITTSBURGH
ARTIST NEWS: CRISTINA CÓRDOVA
SUMMER AT FERRIN CONTEMPORARY, JUNE EVENTS IN NORTH ADAMS
The Charlotte Observer: Cristina Cordova
Cristina Córdova: Involuntary Dialogs in Ceramics Monthly
For centuries, both painting and sculpture were synonymous with the representation of figures; the earliest images we know are figurative. The foundation of Cristina Córdova’s work lies squarely within this global tradition.
EXPOSED — opening reception
SATURDAY JUNE 18 | OPENING RECEPTION of EXPOSED: HEADS, BUSTS, AND NUDES Join us at Ferrin Contemporary, 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA on Saturday, June 18 from 4 to…
C-File: Ceramists Selected for $50k US Artists Fellows Awards
#Ferrincontemporaryontheroad | SOFA Chicago 2014
Leslie Ferrin reports from Chicago, November 2014 Returning from SOFA Chicago this year, I was asked again and again, “How was it?” Now in its 21st year, people wanted to know about…
Ceramic Top 40 | 2013
Exhibition of artists under and over age 40 currently working in ceramics November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios at Belger Crane Yard…
Cristina Cordóva, Jungla at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum
InFrame – Cristina Cordova from InFrame on Vimeo.