01/15/2025
DIMIN is very pleased to present “Facing a Forward Wind”, a sequence of fifteen mixed-media panels from New York-based artist Erick Alejandro Hernández. Through shifting forms, sizes, and material approaches, the artist explores the symbolism around the act of waiting and the psychology of space. Figures traverse different settings to form a line, a procession of solitary bodies queued up in expectation. The spaces they inhabit echo the formal conventions of institutions - a hospital, a grocery store, a government office, public-transit. These thresholds where the individual, collective, and institution are entwined are populated by figures from the artist’s life, as well as extracted from art history and film. Through painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage, Hernández explores waiting as a site where anticipation and memory meet.
Erick Alejandro Hernández
Facing a Forward Wind
February 7 - March 15, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, February 7th, 6-8pm
Erick Alejandro Hernández (b. 1994) is an artist from Matanzas, Cuba, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Hernández has been a fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Oxbow, Yaddo, Macdowell, Mass MoCA, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Lighthouse Works, The Royal Drawing School at Dumfries House, and Fountainhead, among others. He is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant and the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting. Hernandez has had solo exhibitions with Murmurs (Los Angeles) and Yossi Milo (New York), in addition to recent group shows at Perrotin (New York), The Mistake Room (Los Angeles), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles), Island (New York), PTT (Taipei), and Spurs (Beijing). In the coming year, Hernandez will be a resident at the Monira Foundation and a fellow at the Bronx Museum AIM Program.
Image: Erick Alejandro Hernández in the studio at , Jersey City, NJ
