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Multi-Part Pieces
Jamaican-born artist Alisa Henriquez's paintings
are on exhibit in Birmingham.
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ear moments that speak to notions of
the body. Because I've always had an
interest in assemblage and collage, I have
incorporated various materials into
lisa Henriquez, born into a fam-
paintings."
ily of artists and married to an
Henriquez, an assistant professor of
artist, wants to expand her out-
painting at Michigan State University,
look and express a pluralistic view of the
world. She does that by merging organic works out of a studio attached to her
home, where her husband, painter
and abstract forms into paintings that
Thomas Berding, maintains a studio on
sometimes include other materials, and
another floor.
she uses bright colors to direct attention
Born in Jamaica, Henriquez traces
to her often multi-part pieces.
Sephardic roots through her father and
In a recent painting, Expulsion,
Ashkenazic roots through her mother.
Henriquez presents a vertical organiza-
The family relocated to
tion of two panels with reds
Canada, where she became
and pinks as the dominant
Above: Aliza
dedicated to art while still a
shades. The constellation of
Henriquez:
teen. That dedication devel-
forms on the top is different
"Passage," 2005,
oped during attendance at
from the constellation of forms watercolor,
Interlochen, both the camp
below to give a sense of dis-
gouache and ink
and the school, and was fur-
tance and removal.
on rag board.
thered at the Rhode Island
The image is one of nine
School of Design for a bache-
created this year to be shown
lor's
degree
and Indiana University for a
through June 4 at the District Arts
master's degree.
Gallery in Birmingham.
Although a teaching job brought her
"These paintings continue a conversa-
to Michigan, Henriquez currently is on
tion with certain recurring themes,
including a frontal organization of picto- sabbatical from the university. She is
finding more time for her two children
rial space, the use of multiple views and
— Adrian, 8, and Olivia, 3 — and her
elements within this space and the inter-
painting projects. While she has never
play of geometric patterns as a foil for
worked on Judaica, she does feel part of
the more organic understandings," says
the Jewish community and is raising her
Henriquez, 40, whose father is an archi-
children with knowledge of Judaism.
tect and artist, whose mother is a
ceramist and whose brother is an archi-
tect.
The works of Aliza Henriquez will
"The series exhibited at District Arts
be on view through June 4 at the
was done in watercolors and gauche on
District Arts Gallery, 955 S. Eton
rag board, and they have images that are
Street, Birmingham. Gallery hours
manipulated and exaggerated, all repre-
are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-
sentative of what I like to bring into my
Saturdays. (248) 258-9300.
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