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Smile Now, Cry Later 2, 2024
Stone lithograph on rives bfk paper
13" x 11"
Pressing Matters Artist Statement:
Smile Now, Cry Later is a sequence of lithograph prints that originally explored imagery, symbols, and phrases associated with gangs such as “Smile Now, Cry Later”, and clowns. Going from clowns to humans, this series reflected and explored where I grew up, thinking about gang violence, policing, and learning more about prisons, community, and how spaces can be transformed over a period of time, all of which can leave lasting impressions on people, things, and places. It was also exploring the phrase, smiling and putting up masks, facades, and what happens when the time to cry is sooner rather than later, grieving the hardships to start healing. Through lithography, etching and getting rid of parts of the original throughout the series, the stone becomes unstable, creating different impressions each time the image changes and is printed.
Artist Bio:
Emily Hernandez is an artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a Salvadoran-American artist exploring her experiences and observations through photographs and translating them into drawings, paintings, and printmaking. These observations come from her love of the people around her and the spaces that she is a part of. She uses colors, composition, and scale to display her care for the subjects in her work while addressing issues that affect the subject matter
Smile Now, Cry Later 2, 2024
Stone lithograph on rives bfk paper
13" x 11"
Pressing Matters Artist Statement:
Smile Now, Cry Later is a sequence of lithograph prints that originally explored imagery, symbols, and phrases associated with gangs such as “Smile Now, Cry Later”, and clowns. Going from clowns to humans, this series reflected and explored where I grew up, thinking about gang violence, policing, and learning more about prisons, community, and how spaces can be transformed over a period of time, all of which can leave lasting impressions on people, things, and places. It was also exploring the phrase, smiling and putting up masks, facades, and what happens when the time to cry is sooner rather than later, grieving the hardships to start healing. Through lithography, etching and getting rid of parts of the original throughout the series, the stone becomes unstable, creating different impressions each time the image changes and is printed.
Artist Bio:
Emily Hernandez is an artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a Salvadoran-American artist exploring her experiences and observations through photographs and translating them into drawings, paintings, and printmaking. These observations come from her love of the people around her and the spaces that she is a part of. She uses colors, composition, and scale to display her care for the subjects in her work while addressing issues that affect the subject matter