Kukuli Velarde

Kukuli Velarde is fearless in her artmaking. Her paintings and ceramic sculptures are daring and seductive mash-ups of art history, the history of colonization, indigeneity, the abject, beauty, and love. Many of her the Peruvian-born, Philadelphia artist's paintings are nude self-portraits showing Velarde in various roles from Venus to saints and martyrs from the European canon. In still other works she may be a pre-columbian sculpture. Often, her large oil on aluminum paintings show the artist's body as patched-up or severed, inscribed upon and bloodied, nursing her child and husband, or sitting on the toilet while accompanied by flying dogs. Artblog's Jennifer Zarro sat down with Velardi at her studio on Dec. 11, 2015.

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This episode was published on Dec 18, 2015.

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