Frank Fajardo: The Politics of Space

Frank Fajardo: The Politics of Space

Feb 2–28, 2001

Frank Fajardo: The Politics of Space was curated by Tex Kerchen and exhibited artworks from Frank Fajardo. Frank Fajardo invested his art with an underlying awareness of the art of ideas as well as a highly personal lexicon of symbols and paradigms drawn from both his Catholic background and his Chicano heritage. He brought color to Minimalism and human feeling to Conceptual art. He worked in two basic formats, string sculptures and allegorical astronomical maps. His work questioned the definition of what constitutes a sculpture. The traditional notion of sculpture assumes a set of rigid physical characteristics including form, mass, density, and cubic volume, while Fajardo’s string compositions suggested form, mass, and volume by defending rather than occupying a space. Fajardo’s string sculptures represented the dematerialization of art.