The art panel for the series of the webinar was awe inspiring. I had never been to a webinar where artists get to showcase their work and the meaning behind it so this was eye opening. The two artists who caught my attention were Elia Alba and Christina Fernandez. I liked how they had their own art style but it both resembled the general aspect of oppression. Although their oppression were in a way similar, it differed in the movements both artists were passionate about. For example, Alba focused more on women of color while Fernandez focused more on labor in the workplace.
Alba's artwork, trailblazer, caught my attention when she was showing it to us because it was a photograph of people of color, specifically women of color. It focused on a population that is not usually exposed in art. Her other art project, Supper club, was different from the projects I have seen since it “documented African, Latinx, Asian cultures as a collective group”. All these individuals were captured getting dinners as a collective where they had relaxed postures and were conversing like they would in their everyday lives. This project started in 2012 and had 10 dinners where Alba was able to capture the normalcy of people.
Fernandez’s work focuses on the labor movement where she takes photos of garment buildings with graffiti written on them sometimes. Her famous photos of the hands holding cars showcase different ideas. For example, one of them expresses the deaths of farmworkers in Saint Paul with working conditions of over 104 degrees. Another one shows Dolores Huerta and her ruptured spleen after taking a brutal beating from a police officer. Lastly, her photograph of the trailer where it was a vintage, adorable place until the 3rd time she saw it, it was burnt down. It showcased the high rates of living conditions in California especially during the pandemic.
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