Emily Hernandez: American-American

Exhibition Abstract

American-American is an exploration of spaces and people from California and El Salvador through drawings, paintings, and prints. Subjects of the works include street vendors, cemeteries, hanging shoes, and altars on the street. Emily Hernandez (B.F.A. '25) is trying to understand the formation of places and their relationship to people, specifically through her experiences living in Los Angeles and her family's history in El Salvador. She is also exploring and confronting her normalization of violence and poverty that is a result of her upbringing.

Exhibitor Biography

Emily Hernandez is a senior in Fine Arts from Los Angeles. She is a Salvadorian-American artist exploring her experiences and observations through photographs and translating them into drawings, paintings, and printmaking. These observations come from her love of the people around her and the spaces that she is a part of. She uses colors, composition, and scale to display her care for the subjects in her work while addressing issues that affect the subject matter.