Prayer and Struggle
[ A flag with Spanish text and four images is depicted against a gold and red background of hearts with crosses. The top image depicts two children holding a Puerto Rican flag and looking at the camera. Underneath, there are three images: the leftmost depicts a bearded person in a hat holding some equipment, the middle image depicts an upside-down bald eagle, and the final image depicts the legs of an unidentified person. ]

Juan Sanchez

Prayer and Struggle , 1990

Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Lithograph and serigraph on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 30 in. (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
Accession #: 19941110
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , Gift of Marijo Dougherty
Related Exhibition:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
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Juan Sánchez (b. 1954, American) is one of the most influential Nuyorican artists who came to prominence alongside a generation of LatinX artists working in New York in the 1980s and 1990s such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez- Peña, and Pepón Osorio. Sanchez creates mixed-media collages that combine photography, painting, media clippings, and found objects. Exploring questions of ethnic, racial, and national identity, Sánchez’s work draws from his personal history and addresses the U.S. occupation of his parents’ homeland and the bifurcated life of Puerto Ricans in America.
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections

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