Existing comment:
Sam Coronado
born Ennis, Texas 1946;
died Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013
Guerillera II
2001
screenprint on paper
Coronado created Guerillera II after a friend showed him a picture of a young female guerrilla fighter from El Salvador. Upon realizing that the girl was only in her teens, Coronado was struck by how circumstances demanded that she occupy herself with war and not the characteristic beauty rituals of teenagers. To express this dissonance, he overlaid images of bullets, lipstick, and the girl's upside-down likeness on a background that resembles rough burlap, a material historically used to package ammunition.
Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2020.24.2 |