Miranda Texidor's Love Poems @ Cries of San Francisco

(Cries of San Francisco is a project by artist Allison Smith http://soex.org/criesofsf/?i=blog)

Miranda Texidor’s Love Poems and Letters of Recommendation

Drawing from the beautiful Latin American tradition of writers like García Marquez. Isabel Allende, and Hernan R. Letelier, whose characters aided people in writing poems of love to their unattainable loves and letters of recommendation for a possible job, Miranda Texidor, my artistic persona, will be peddling her wares in the streets of San Francisco. She plans on wearing a full costume consisting in a handmade flowery dress, hat, and shoes. She will be carrying a portable rolling suitcase made for the purpose with an incorporated table, chair and writing accouterments. This action is an iteration of the one already performed in the Plaza de la Independencia in Quito Ecuador in 2007. The main difference is Miranda Texidor´s full gear with costume created specially for this performance. It will be conducted both in English and Spanish to better serve all populations.

Cries will be in this line:

Poems of Love, Poems of Love, who wants a little poem, with a little poise?!

Come by to get it, come by right here, you will not be disappointed; you will be happy and sweet. Letters of Recommendation also if you need!

Ana Fernández

Poemas de amor y cartas de recomendación de Miranda Texidor en Cries of San Francisco

(Cries of San Francisco es un proyecto de la artista Allison Smith http://soex.org/criesofsf/?i=blog)

Partiendo de la bella tradición de escritores latinoamericanos como García Marquez, Isabel Allende y Hernán R. Letelier, cuyos personajes asistían a la gente en la redacción de poemas de amor para sus amores inalcanzables, Miranda Texidor, mi heterónimo, estará promocionando sus servicios en las calles de San Francisco. Ella planea ponerse un disfraz hecho a mano compuesto de un vestido floreado, sombrero, y zapatos. Estará cargando un maletín rodante y portable con mesa, silla, y herramientas de escritura incorporadas. Esta es una acción itinerante que se llevó a cabo por primera vez en la Plaza de la Independencia de Quito, Ecuador en 2007. Esta vez Miranda se presenta con su disfraz y equipo completos, creados especialmente para la occasion. La acción sera conducida en español y en ingles, para asi servir a la población san franciscana.

Vocearé mis servicios de la siguiente manera:

Poemas de Amor! Cartas de Recomendación! Venga y lleve una, escríbale a su amor, no se quede sin su carta, que todas son del Corazon! No sea tímido, no se deje llevar, que su amor lo está esperando para llegar al altar!

Ana Fernández

Jardin del Pulpo . Octopus's Garden

Match de box, 2011



Parchisi, 2010



Jardín del Pulpo 2011




Copa del mundo, detalle 2011




City by the Bay, 2011

El Jardín del Pulpo
Una muestra de dibujo en el campo expandido de Ana Fernández y Paula Barragán

“Quisiera estar” comienza la canción de los Beatles, “bajo del mar, en el jardín del pulpo, en la sombra”. Ahí donde tiempo y espacio quedan suspendidos, donde el tiempo del deber, del querer, del tener no existen. Sólo el juego el goce, el delirio y el amor, pero amor del pagano, sin dios ni ley. El jardín del pulpo es aquel lugar donde todo es posible, cualquier juego es jugoso, cualquier propuesta es indecente. Ahí quiero estar siempre: de fiesta, con los amigos, con los churos hechos y la falda alzada, jugando sin preocupación en la maravillosa heterotopía que habito en el dibujo. Ahí donde sabemos que nadie nos va a encontrar. “Seremos muy felices tu y yo sin nadie quién nos diga qué hacer….”


I want to be
Under the sea
In the Octopuses garden
In the shade

- The Beatles

Ana Fernández

Octopus’s Garden
A drawing Exhibit in the Expanded Field of Ana Fernández and Paula Barragán


“I’d like to be...” starts the Beatles’ song “...under the sea, in the octopus’s garden, in the shade.” There, where time and space are suspended, and things like duties, having, and wanting do not exist. Where only games, pleasure, delirium, and love (pagan love, without gods or law) exist. The Octopus’s Garden is a place where any game is juicy and every proposal is indecent. That’s where I’d like to be: partying with friends and playing without preoccupations in the marvelous heterotopy that I inhabit when I draw. That place where no one will find me. “We’ll be very happy you and I, with no one to tell us what to do...”

I want to be
Under the sea
In the Octopus’s garden
In the shade


- The Beatles

Ana Fernández

Sewing Groups Grupos de Costura en Franja Arte Comunidad

This is the last sewing workshop with women from the coastal town of ENGABAO in Ecuador. Beautiful experience, we will continue with its implementation and follow up. We will be deepening into women´s rights while we continue to sew and maintain this safe intimate space of friendship and confidence.

Este es el último taller de costura con mujeres de la comuna de ENGABAO en la costa del Guayas. Una experiencia maravillosa mientras le damos sostenimiento a La Franja arte Comunidad y a los talleres. Estaremos haciendo hincapié en los derechos de las mujeres mientras seguimos cosiendo y manteniendo este espacio libre y salvo para la amistad y la confianza.







Maria Fernanda Cartagena y yo en el taller



Cortando...



Agapito y su tela






En pleno trabajo




Since 2007 I have created various sewing groups driven by the needs to provide a space for communal gathering, for the recuperation of a feminine space of talk and sharing, and for the community love for socially based sewing. In my initial exploration of this working method, I worked with a women’s collective which was not focused on creating objects devoid of their context. We focused principally on generating sharing, warmth, and community among women. Our first project, realized in the context of Al-Zurich Festival 2007 with women from the South of Quito- Ecuador, was "Regalos" or "Gifts"
a project that involved sewing and dancing as gifts creating an alternative economy of affections and exchanges.

We subsequently created the “30 x 30 Quilt” Project. We asked women from around Latin America to participate by making an autobiographical 30 by 30 centimeter sewn square. We then worked together with artist Andrea Sica’s (from Uruguay) "Belly button project," wherein we sewed our squares together and sent them to Uruguay to be sewn together with their local squares. Most of the women participants were not self defined as artists per se; most were dedicated sewers or knitters in their own right.

Simultaneously, we created another sewing group called "Hilando Fino" on the coast of Ecuador within the context of the artist residency Solo con Natura in 2009. The project invited women from this coastal community to gather together and sew their own personal stories. These women often came with the strong burden of adolescent pregnancies and general violence against them. The project proved to be an excellent channel for their various interests and a great support system. The group has also started to create their own objects such as banners and pillow covers. They are still meeting every week and I sure hope they can continue their group to see it flourish.






Puerto el Morro "HIlando Fino" 2009







Project "Doll House" 2010








"regalos" or "Gifts" 2007

323 Gallery

Artificial Paradise revisited, by Ana Fernandez (Miranda Texidor) Piano, by Walter Sunday


Dogs and Cats, Donna-Pesce- Passero, Little doll trio


Summer of love


Little doll trio


Parcheesi


View of installation



Some of the work in exhibition at 323 gallery, Potrero Ave. San Francisco

323 Gallery Marmangios October 28

The 323 Gallery is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition of artists Miranda Texidor and Walter Sunday. The show runs from October 27 through November 26. The opening reception is on Thursday, October 28, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Walter Sunday began his exhibition career in the New York City of the early 1980’s. Sunday’s sculptures lent themselves to the Neo-expressionist movement, which came out of the Lower East Side, consisting of psychologically loaded figurative works, which were brightly painted, and evocatively installed. At present, Walter is a resident of San Francisco and fabricating his works in a South of Market Area studio where he continues to explore his and humanity’s relationships to the object.

The present show consists of six small works. Each piece is hand-carved from one piece of Douglas fir wood, painted with oils and enamels, including specific gilded and silver leafed elements.

Sunday tries to trigger the viewers’ imaginations and allow the viewer to suggest, and create her or his own associations; thereby evoking new interpretations with everyday objects. He sees his designs as being playful mental exercises, and strives for personal and collective meaning within the application of experience. Walter attempts to understand complexity through making his sculpture. By making an everyday commodity a subjective experience, he hopes to achieve a universal truth, and truth being the most rare of commodities as he sees life. Should we trust our perceptions to be the same as others, he asks?

Attempting to integrate the experience of his perceptions interacting with everyday objects, Sunday interprets his personal sensations, or feelings, about his interaction and relationship with an object. To this idea, he believes that everyone is true to each of his or her own perceptions, experiences, and feelings.

Ana Fernandez (Miranda Texidor) was born in 1963 and raised in Quito, Ecuador. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in Painting and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts. Ana explores the intersection between the real and the fantastic through drawing, painting, writing, education and art based social practice.

She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krassner Foundation Award, and was an Artist in Residence at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale New York. She received a grant to develop and Art Program in Yunguilla Ecuador through Center for Art and Public Life. She has been Painting faculty at Universidad Central del Ecuador, and Broward College Ecuador. She is current Studio Practice Instructor for the MFA program at California College of the Arts in Potrero Hill.

Ana created and currently develops workshops with the Museum in a Box, a program to bring Contemporary Ecuadorian Art to communities around the world, through a grant from the Ecuadorian Cultural Department. She has conducted various socially based sewing collaborations in Ecuador and California. Her work has been shown throughout Latin America, Spain, Italy, and the US and is in various collections. (download PR doc)

Marmangios - 2010 I am interested in the poetic research, finding and wonderment of “other” worlds. I find the keeping and tending of imaginary spaces fascinating. These spaces are playful moments of time or matter, which exist mainly in children’s play as marvelous secrets hidden from adults. We might be able to tap on them, if we keep that wonderment key, given to us as kids and so easily lost as we grow up.

I might recreate this space in performatic play as with Miranda Texidor´s circus, or in drawing as in the Marmangios series, in small-scale dioramas as “Quinceañera” or in writings such as Miranda Texidor´s collection of poems. These spaces of otherness are full of fantastic creatures, absurd stories and disparate times.

Marmangios is a Portuguese word that describes big and somehow desperate beings. I have been inspired to recreate these characters based on some creatures I have seen in my outings on buses around town. - Miranda Texidor

323 Gallery Schedule
Wednesday - Friday (3PM to 7PM) or by appointment
323 Potrero Ave. (at 16th) SF, CA 94103 / 415-626-4333

Muni #9 and 22. Easy parking nearby.

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Open Studios at the Ranch

Open Studios 2010 at the Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch. Thanks to all the wonderful people that came and shared with us. We had quite a good crowd, art, music, poetry and goodies. It was fun!

Benditos negativos, street art en Quito, Ecuador

Artículo escrito para la Bg revista de Cuenca. Habla de algunos de los artistas jóvenes que hacen las "pintadas" que vemos en la calle a menudo.

Article published by BG Magazine from Cuenca, about street art in Quito Ecuador.

OPEN STUDIOS 2010 AT THE RANCH

I will be showing my drawings, fabric and museum in a box at the Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch studios 1433 Van Dyke Av. at Jennings st. 2nd floor on October 16 and 17 from 11 am to 6 pm come by!!!