“Speak Spanish, Yo Hablo Inglés” (oil on stretched canvas and wood panel substrate, mounted on 7 aluminum panels), by Kukuli Velarde, in Ferrin Contemporary’s (North Adams, Mass.) new show, “In Dialogue: Cristina Córdova & Kukuli Velarde,” Oct. 18-Nov. 28.
The gallery says that Córdova and Velarde navigate their Latina identity and the world through their works. “Each explores subjects drawn from both their cultural histories and their roles as mothers, daughters and parents of young women documenting their own and their subjects’ generational changes.”
Main Street of the former industrial city and now major art center of North Adams, Mass. The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art there is the largest such institution in the United States.
The motto refers to North Adams being at the western end of the five-mile-long Hoosac (Railroad) Tunnel.
