Tres Banderas
[ A crudely colored-in Puerto Rican flag sets the backdrop for a photograph of a person's bicep inside a gold frame. The person's bicep has a tattoo of the Puerto Rican flag. Two paragraphs of text take up the bottom of the image. ]

Juan Sanchez

Tres Banderas , 1988

Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Lithograph, serigraph, and laser print on paper
Dimensions: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
Accession #: 19941111
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
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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.
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