Esperanza CortésEmbroidered Allegories

New work by Colombian-born artist Esperanza Cortés, made during a research fellowship in the Hispanic Society’s collection, on heritage and colonial history.

Cortés, a Colombian-born artist who works in painting, sculpture, installation and video, developed the pieces as a Vilcek Foundation Artist Research Fellow at the museum. Her sources range across the collection, from Velázquez and Goya to metalwork and the embroidered shawls known as mantones de Manila, and she sets personal stories of triumph and loss against questions of heritage and colonial history.

It is the third show in Arte en el Alto Manhattan, the museum’s yearly series for artists who live or work uptown.

Full details at hispanicsociety.org