Guadalupe Maravilla Silver Guadalupe Drawing 2022

Identification
Title
Silver Guadalupe Drawing
Production Date
2022
Object Number
2023.038
Credit Line
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by PAMM’s Collectors Council, with additional funds from PAMM’s Director’s Discretionary Fund, Craig Robins, Alexa and Adam Wolman, Scott Stiner and Karen Tomaine, Nina Fuentes and Andrea Guerreri
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Physical Qualities
Medium
Ink, paint, beads, aluminum, agate, and brown obsidian on inkjet print
Dimensions
30 x 90 inches
Visual Description
Silver Guadalupe Drawing by Guadalupe Marvilla is a mixed media print made of ink and paint made in 2022. It measures roughly two and a half feet tall by seven and a half feet wide and is hung in landscape orientation, meaning its longest side runs parallel to the floor. The print depicts a Virgin of Guadalupe figure, a central image in Mexican Catholic devotion, with symbols of Indigenous healing. The print stretches horizontally like a panorama. A figure made of shiny materials like beads is placed on the left-hand side, alluding to this Virgin figure. To the right of the composition, two arms come into the frame stretching toward the left. A brown hand holds a pencil, hovering above, appearing to draw the green arm beneath it. The green arm, in turn, holds a brown marking tool and punctures the skin of a brown leg below in two neat rows of dots—a pattern referencing ancient Indigenous healing practices. A green frog, a symbol of healing and transformation in Mesoamerican traditions, perches on the foot. Around these limbs, there are abstract shapes made of various colors. In the center of the composition, a small volcano rises with a hand hovering above it. The background is a solid foundation of off-white Markedwith dark black and red ink. These organic lines flow across the composition like roots or veins.
Guadalupe Maravilla
Guadalupe Maravilla — b. 1976, San Salvador, El Salvador; lives in New York
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