Ivonne Ferrer: Selected Work

Ivonne Ferrer, Selected Work gathers a significant portion of the work produced by the Cuban-American artist over the last decade. This volume was conceptualized by the artist as a series of consecutive and interrelated works: each leads to the next, and almost all are derived from similar questions and explorations.Spanning over 330 pages, the selection of pieces and their editorial curation make Ferrer's evolution clearly visible. Art critic Carol Damian has remarked on Ferrer's imagination: "The creative imagination of Ivonne Ferrer produces works as bizarre as they are provocative. She invites us into a world of irony, satire, humor, and surrealism, always achieved through meticulous draftsmanship and exceptional painterly and compositional skills. Only with a robust foundation in an academic system that demanded technical skills and conceptual originality could an artist succeed in creating such an inventive body of work."This book, through the perspectives of numerous specialists, sheds considerable light on how Ivonne "has taken her unique vision to another dimension in the cosmopolitan art scene of Miami, without ever losing the inventive powers that have marked her career for many years. She continues to conceive and develop a strange cast of characters, dominated by women of all ages, descriptions, and historical sources. The female protagonists in her works introduce us to their stories, prompt remarkable interpretations of their dilemmas, real and imagined, and emerge heroic, even when they should be victims. All her characters disguise an inexplicable and fantastic reality as they cavort in a world of fragments, distortions, and warped alterations, devoid of time and place. Read more