Frida Baranek: Personification of Art
Miami-based sculptor FRIDA BARANEK was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1961. She earned a B.A. in Architecture at Santa Ursula’s University in Rio de Janeiro (1984) and an M.A. in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins in London in 2012.
In 2013, she was a recipient of a mid-career survey “Confrontos” at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. Her work has been included at Bienal de São Paulo (1989), Bienalle di Venezia – Aperto (1990), MOMA in New York (1993), Maison de l’Amérique Latine (1995), Ludwig Museum in Koblenz (2005), and the Frost Art Museum (2018), in addition to many others.
Galeria Raquel Arnaud from São Paulo, has been representing the artist since 1990. Her work is part of many private and public collections, such as The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C.; “Ministere de La Culture, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain”, in France; and at The Museums of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and of São Paulo. In 2018, apart from being included in their collection, Baranek was nominated by the Frost Art Museum in Miami and The Smithsonian Institute “Women Who Make History,” the 14th Annual Smithsonian Museum Magazine Day. Most recently, she has been awarded the 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculptor Grant.
Both American and Brazilian, Baranek has lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paris, Berlin, London and New York.
From the early works and throughout the years, the relationship that Baranek entertained with materials consists in defying their resistance to lead them to their metamorphosis: to build with and against it. Her work is the expression of her perceptive faith, where perceiving and imagining are two ways of thinking.
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EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 10:48 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 7:20 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 7:05 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 4:30 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 2:17 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 2:56 min.
RESPECTS OTHERS POINTS OF VIEW: 1:21 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 2:01 min.
COMMUNITY VALUES: 2:04 min.
BREAKS THE RULES: 1:24 min.