Artist Statement
As a lens-based artist, I use photography as an expansive tool within other media, such as printmaking and woodworking. Between these media, I dissect and investigate institutional structures of religious, immigrant, and familial coercion that supposedly construct my identity, seperate myself from these constructs, and reclaim fragmented parts of myself I can’t describe, remember, or explain. The outcome of this process finds out to be destroying and remaking the image, serving as an artifact of my experience.
The work that I make is a secondary outcome to my process in healing. Almost as muscle memory, the work allows me to remember situations and places that coercive structures suppressed.
For questions, inquires, or comments, please contact me at
ruby [at] lunch money print [dot] com
ruby [at] lunch money print [dot] com
Bio
Ruby Gonzalez Hernandez is an Indigenous Zapotec artist, educator, and curator born on Quinnipiac land (New Haven, Connecticut). As a lens-based artist, she uses photography as a tool in printmaking, woodworking, and other media to investigate and find language for many themes; religious exploitation, spiritual salvation, redemption, oppression affecting BIPOC, and more. She is passionate about work that serves the New Haven community, grassroots arts ecology, and currently runs an annual international print exchange to serve those aims called Lunch Money Print.
Ruby's work has been supported and recognized by the National Basketball Association, Facing History and Ourselves, United Way, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and more. In her curatorial practice, she organizes exhibitions concerning themes and ideas surrounding community solidarity.
Ruby's work has been supported and recognized by the National Basketball Association, Facing History and Ourselves, United Way, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and more. In her curatorial practice, she organizes exhibitions concerning themes and ideas surrounding community solidarity.
