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Installation image by Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Always the Sun (An Intersectional Sunrise), exhibition installation image, Kohler Art Center, 2021). The installation illustrates a later stage and strategy of Diana Guerrero-Maciá's career: her exhibitions of mixed-media works encompassing hand-sewn textile and paper collages and reclaimed objects and clothing. This work employs hybrid techniques including collage, assemblage, sewing and dyeing, sampling and appropriation inspired by the work of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Her later exhibitions, as in this case, sometimes use a salon style of presentation, exploring themes (here) such as gender and sexual equality, art/craft hierarchies involving the modernist grid and needlework, myth, and the artist's Cuban upbringing. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and commissioned by arts institutions.

Diana Guerrero-Maciá. Copyright held by the artist.

Diana Guerrero-Maciá

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later stage and presentation strategy in Diana Guerrero-Maciá's practice: her exhibitions of mixed-media, hybrid works at the intersection of painting, fiber, design and conceptual art traditions. Encompassing hand-sewn textile and paper collages and reclaimed objects and clothing, this work employs a patchwork aesthetic that formally uses textiles like paint as a vehicle for color, texture and depth, and thematically, samples styles, graphics, symbols of identity, histories and lived experiences. Her later exhibitions and analog, handmade processes explore, variously, meanings related to gender and sexual equality, environmental and military concerns, cosmic speculation, and art/craft hierarchies, comprehended in single works and as a whole. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key, longstanding body of work in her oeuvre, which brought widespread recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics in publications, and museum commissions. Guerrero-Maciá's work of this type and this work is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Diana Guerrero-Maciá, and the work no longer exists in this form, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.