princesavenegas: Ana Mendieta. a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, and painter. She
princesavenegas: Ana Mendieta. a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, and painter. She was born in 1948 in Havana, Cuba where her family actively partook in the country’s politics. At the age of 12, Mendieta and her sister were sent to the United States to escape Fidel Castro’s regime. She bounced around refugee centers and institutions before being reunited with her parents in the US. She attended the University of Iowa and earned her MA in Painting and MFA in Intermedia. “My art is grounded on the belief in one universal energy which runs though everything,” she wrote in an artist’s statement from the early 1980s, “from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant, from plant to galaxy.” -- source link