Arts Daily / Exhibition | Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Pinturas de Casta and the Construction of American Identity

Exhibition | Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Pinturas de Casta and the Construction of American Identity

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art will present works by Colombian American artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez. Her paintings reference casta painting, a genre popularized in 18th-century Spanish Colonial Central and South America that purported to depict a racial and social taxonomy of children born of racially mixed couplings. Friedemann-Sánchez’s contemporary casta paintings take inspiration from this problematic genre to reflect on the legacy of colonialism that lingers in the racial and social discrimination and marginalization present in her home country of Colombia and here in the U.S. The galleries are open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and until 7 p.m. Thursdays.