X as Intersection:
Working with Nature
Wed, Oct 22, 2025
4 pm
Frances Gallardo, Work from Aerosoles (Aerosols), 2022. 12 1/4 × 17 5/8 in. (31.1 × 44.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing and Print Committee. © Frances Gallardo
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The Susan and John Hess Family Theater is equipped with an induction loop and infrared assistive listening system. Accessible seating is available.
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Animal and plant life, weather, and ecology are central to the artistic practices of Nancy Friedemann‑Sánchez, Frances Gallardo, and Ángel Lartigue. Through the lens of scientific inquiry, their work explores themes of biodiversity, climate change, and the complex relationships between humans and the environment. This conversation delves into how each artist integrates the natural world into their creative process.
This conversation is moderated by Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Josh T. Franco, Associate Director of Special Projects, US Latinx Art Forum.
This program is part of X as Intersection, a four-part hybrid public program series featuring conversations with fellows from the fifth cohort of the Latinx Artist Fellowship, an initiative of the US Latinx Art Forum.
Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish provided by Babilla Collective.
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez grew up in Colombia as the child of a Colombian and a United States citizen and migrated to the U.S. as an adult. Her art is about the curious and intense experience of having physically migrated yet still having a piece of herself rooted in Colombia. Friedemann-Sánchez lives and works in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Frances Gallardo was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in Ithaca, New York. Her interdisciplinary practice examines the cultural, geopolitical, and historical complexities of the Caribbean meteorological landscape through an eco-poetic lens. Since childhood, Gallardo has been fascinated with atmospheric events such as hurricanes and, despite the chaos they cause, she sees beautiful forms, musical compositions, colors, and movement.
Ángel Lartigue is a curator and artistic researcher whose work explores the relationship between the body and land through the use of “putrefaction,” matter as raw material. This concentration has led her to experiment with archaeological processes of decomposition in artworks, incorporating fungi, insects, and even odors captured during fieldwork. Lartigue has been awarded grants for collaborative projects through the Idea Fund (2022, 2021) and U.S. Latinx Art Forum’s CHARLA Fund (2021).