Ceramic sculptures by Cristina Cordova
Cristina Cordova is an American-born Puerto Rican sculptor working and living in Penland, North Carolina.
Cristina Cordova received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and went on to earn her Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
In 2002, she enrolled in a three-year artist residency programme at Penland School of Crafts, where she later served on the Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2010.
Cristina Cordova's work is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), the Fuller Craft Museum (Massachusetts), the Mint Museum of Craft and Design (North Carolina), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico (PR), the Museum of Puerto Rican Art (PR), and the Joseph-Shein Museum (New York).
In my work, I strive to create figurative compositions that explore the boundary between the material, sensual experience of the object and the psychological resonance of our involuntary dialogues with the self-referential.
I am driven by the primal act of infusing an inanimate image with a sense of presence, turning it into an inspired repository of our deepest desires and aspirations. My goal is to make these compositions sound both a reflection of our shared humanity and to question socio-cultural notions of gender, race, beauty and power.
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