Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

Born in 1967 in Tierralta in the region of Córdoba in Colombia, Delcy Morelos studied at the Cartagena School of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Bogotá. Her practice is rooted in ancestral Andean cosmovision and the aesthetics of Minimal Art. Morelos’ abstract works, with their formidable evocations, inspire rumination on the interplay between human beings and earth, the human body and materiality. Morelos’s recent material investigations have extended into ceramics textiles, and natural materials, leading to the development of a more sculptural practice, and, more recently, large-scale multisensory installations. Past solo exhibitions have been held at Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Fundación NC-Arte, Bogotá, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden, and elsewhere.

Delcy Morelos nació en Tierralta, Colombia, en 1967. Su práctica abarca la pintura, la instalación y la escultura. En la última década, la artista se ha enfocado en producir instalaciones de gran formato in situ utilizando tierra, arcilla, fibras naturales y otros materiales orgánicos. Morelos se graduó de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cartagena en 1991. Recientemente, ha tenido presentaciones individuales de su obra en NC-arte, Bogotá (2018); Röda Sten Konsthall, Gotemburgo, Suecia (2018); Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá (2019); Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canadá (2019); y el Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2022). Vive en Bogotá.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.