Sues "Ruben of Mexico" Spotlight in Saratoga's Spring Street Gallery

Saratoga’s Spring Street Gallery:

Current Exhibit:ENACTION! (Learn, Create, Educate)

In support of black, indigenous, and people of color, we are asking the public to educate themselves about BIPOC artists and to share what they learned through art.

LEARN 

Research a BIPOC artist 

CREATE 

Create work in response to the artist’s work and share it

EDUCATE

Share the artist’s name, one example of their work, & one thing you learned about the artist

First Artist: Sue Clark – Fine Arts photographer and first guest artist for ENACTION Art Show.

Lola Alvarez Bravo – (Mexican, 1907-1993)

 Sue Clark’s fine art photography submission:  “Ruben of Mexico”

 Lola Alvarez Bravo is recognized as Mexico’s first successful female fine arts photographer. Ms. Bravo was well-known for her candid portrayals of Mexican subjects. The intention of her photography was to reveal the deeper meaning of the culture of Mexico. Her career arc included being named head of the photography department at Mexico’s National Institute for Fine Arts, which was a trailblazing position for a woman at that time. She had many art friends, including Paul Strand, Diego Rivera and  Frida Kahlo. In fact, in 1953, Lola’s Mexico City gallery sponsored Frida Kahlo’s first and only solo exhibition in Mexico in Frida’s lifetime. Ms. Bravo’s archive was bequeathed to the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in 1994 upon her death. Her images hang in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.