Multi-media artist Karin Waisman in conversation with noted Latin American art scholar Estrellita Brodsky discussing work from Waisman’s current exhibition and other previous projects.
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Karin Waisman
Karin Waisman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives and works in New York. She has completed commissions for public places and institutions such as Espacio Escultórico del Desierto, San Luis Potosí, México; Museo del Barrio, New York; Plattsburgh Sculpture Park, SUNY Plattsburgh, New York; ART/OMI Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the US (Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY; Museo del Barrio, NY; SculptureCenter, Long Island City,NY; Point of Contact, Syracuse, NY; Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY; Neuhoff Gallery, NY; Haim Chanin Fine Arts, NY; Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY; Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, NY); Germany ( Überseemusum, Bremen; Unesco Institut für Pädagogik, Hamburg; Bürgerhalle im Rathaus, Wolfsburg); Mexico City (Museo del Chopo; Yvonamore Palix Gallery); and Argentina (Fundación Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires).
Reviews of her work have been published in The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture Magazine, BOMB magazine, Arte al Dia, Art Nexus, ArtMedia among others.
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Estrellita B. Brodsky
Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is a distinguished curator, collector, and philanthropist and an advocate for artists and the art from Latin America and its diaspora.
Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and a Master’s from Hunter College. Her curatorial expertise spans exhibitions and extensive writings, particularly focusing on post-WWII Latin American artists, including Jesús Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Julio Le Parc, whose first U.S. museum survey she curated at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM): Julio Le Parc: Form into Action. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and is a founding member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Latin American Art Initiative and Tate Americas Foundation Latin American Art Committee. She has endowed curatorial positions in Latin American art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), Tate, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
In 2015 she founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program and not-for-profit exhibition gallery established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation dedicated to broadening international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America and its diaspora.