Poli Marichal

Poli Marichal is a Puerto Rican artist that works in illustration, painting and filmmaking. She was born in February 1, 1956 Ponce, Puerto Rico. She is the daughter of painter Carlos Marichal.

Education

Poli Marichal received a Bachelor's degree in Art with a concentration in Printmaking from Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a Master's degree in Art from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.[1]

Partial filmography

  • Underwater Blues (1981), "Hand painted, scratched animated Super 8 film examining the contradictions of the psychopathology of colonization."[2]
  • Al Rojo Vivo (1982), "This work recreates the spirit of frustration and is the result of scratching and painting the tiny super 8 mm frame without magnification. The soundtrack was performed with a percussion instrument and voice."[3]
  • Guernica (1982), "Experimental Super 8 film featuring animated 3-D puppets based on the characters in Picasso’s painting."[4]
  • Blues Tropical (1983), "First part of the Trilogy of the Island in which Poli Marichal expresses and vents the anger and frustration caused by the colonial situation."[5]
  • Isla Postal (1984), "Hand painted, scratched Super 8 film meditating on Puerto Rico’s political status through the layering of traditional Bomba music and governmental speeches."
  • Coffee Break (1987), "Experimental film which incorporates a range of materials, ink, coloring pencils, watercolors, and graphite, to narrate the story of a woman who is transformed into a cat while she drinks the celebrated beverage of the island, coffee."[6]

Public collections[7]

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago, Illinois
  • Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
  • The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • The University of Puerto Rico Museum of Anthropology, History and Art, Puerto Rico
  • Institute for Latino Studies University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Galería Sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas
  • The Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas
  • The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, New York
  • Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of Santa Barbara
  • Vincent Price Art Museum, California
  • Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Art Museum, California
  • Huntington Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
  • The Gerald Buck Collection
  • Colección Reyes-Veray, San Juan, Puerto Rico

References

  1. ↑ "Poli Marichal | Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico". www.mapr.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  2. ↑ Underwater Blues (1981), retrieved 2017-03-12
  3. ↑ Al rojo vivo (1982), retrieved 2017-03-12
  4. ↑ Guernica (1982), retrieved 2017-03-12
  5. ↑ Blues Tropical (1983), retrieved 2017-03-12
  6. ↑ Coffee Break (1987), retrieved 2017-03-12
  7. ↑ "Poli Marichal Studio". www.polimarichal.com. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
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