Existing comment:
Ester Hernandez
born Dinuba, California 1944
La Ofrenda, from the National Chicano Screenprint Taller, 1988–1989
1988
screenprint on paper
Using her then partner as a model, Hernandez subtly conveys intimacy between two women: a woman's hand offers a rose to another female figure whose back is emblazoned with a Virgin of Guadalupe tattoo. In 1991, when this image became the cover of Carla Trujillo's book Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, it became more widely associated with sexual desire between women.
Gift of the Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.65.3 |