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Statement
Through the use of photographic imagery, Ms. Polo combines traditional methods of drawing and painting with new media – film, video and digital technology. Based on black and white family photographs and film of her Puerto Rican ancestors in New York from the1920’s through the 1960’s, her current body drawings and paintings began as an elegy to past lives and a formal meditation on the inherent nature of abstraction in photography. She moved to black and white film when she became more interested in spontaneous responses to the camera that advanced beyond a single snapshot of plaintive memory to translations in time and movement. With film as her reference, she is able to work with poetic movements of form that capture a transitory past and an extended narrative of time. Referring to a vast archive of family photographs and film, her drawings and paintings examine her cultural heritage through the filter of American society.
Biography
Darice Polo, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Drawing Program, received a BFA
from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from the State University of New York (Albany).
She has exhibited her drawings and paintings in national exhibitions throughout the United
States and beyond – at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; the Visual Arts Center of
New Jersey; the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, the Urban Institute
for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan and at Haven Arts Gallery in New York. In
2001, she was an artist-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont where she also lectured
and taught figure drawing. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Nora Eccles
Harrison Museum of Art in Logan, Utah and at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore, MD.
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