Hollywood, Los Angeles
Cielo Félix-Hernández
Sweet and Sour
Sargent's DaughtersSargent’s Daughters is pleased to present Cielo Félix-Hernández’s solo exhibition Sweet and Sour, the artist’s Los Angeles debut and her second presentation with the gallery. Featuring an entirely new body of work by the artist, Sweet and Sour continues Félix-Hernández’s exploration of her individual, familial, and cultural experiences of transition and transformation. The deeply saturated and warmly atmospheric paintings depict moments of rest, care, and cultivation as antidotes to violence and repression. Cielo Félix-Hernández (b.1998, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto-Rican transdisciplinary artist, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Working primarily in oil paint, Félix-Hernández depicts figures who author their own narratives, constructed out of familiar Boricua and Caribbean iconographies. Félix-Hernández received her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. Recent group exhibitions include Puerto Rico Negrx, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico), “Pictures Girls Make:” Portraitures, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum & Poe, (Los Angeles, CA), Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), Domesticanx, curated by Susanna Temkin, El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY), Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), Visions and Nightmares, Simone Subal Gallery, curated by Baseera Khan (New York, NY), Flame Tree, Regularnormal, curated by Bony Ramirez (New York, NY), Dynasty, curated by Amy Goldrich, Christopher K. Ho, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, and Sara Reisman, PS122 Gallery (New York, NY). Félix-Hernández is in the permanent collection at El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Abrons Art Center, New York, NY. She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.