Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Cazadilla

By: Emory Lewman

Early Life• Jennifer was born in 1974 in

Pennsylvania

• She attended U of Richmond and received her BA and MS at Massachusetts Institutes of technology

• Guillermo was born in 1971 in Cuba

• He attended Escuela de Artes Plasticas and received his BFA and his MFA from Bard College

Notable groups and Exhibits

• Allora and Cazadilla have some of their art work in the MOMA

• They also have had exhibits in Dallas Museum of Art, Walker Arts Center, and many many more

• Allora and Cazadilla have worked together sense 1995

-they met as they studied abroad in Florence

Artistic Style

• Allora and Cazadilla have a wide range of style and preferred medium

• They work with sculpture, photo, performance, and all kinds of experimentation

- They see art as an experiment

• They test ideas of authorship, nationality & draw historical metaphors to basic materials

Inspiration

• Allora and Cazadilla explore all kind of techniques and are inspired by everything!

• They look to art as “an excuse to research and learn new topics” –Jennifer Allora

• Art is an experiment to Allora and Cazadilla

• They are interested in the way different materials work together, and a materials usage

Inspiration

• They see art as a way to voice people who normally can not be voiced

- Their chalk performance/exhibit is a good example

- They set giant chalk out in front of the Peru government buildings so the people could publicly protest

Inspiration

• Allora and Cazadilla use art as a way to see people’s responses

• They once had a music and war project where they releated different music to times of war

-”using sound as weapons”- Guillermo Cazadilla

-Allora and Cazadilla

-Forecast

-2010

-70x105 cm

• Allora and Cazadilla• Scale of Justice

Carried by Shore Foam

• 2010• 380x520x290

-Allora and Cazadilla

-Peurto Rican Light

-2003

-73x113x123

• Allora and Cazadilla• Clamber• 2006• (mixed media technique)

• Allora and Cazadilla• Intermission (Halloween Iraq

V)• 2010• 300x422

• Allora and Cazadilla• Sediments Sediments

(figures of speech)• 2007

• Allora and Cazadilla• Hope Hippo• 2005

• Allora and Cazadilla • The Bird of Hermes is My

Name, Eating My Wings to Make Me Tame

• 2010• 60x50x40 cm

• Allora and Cazadilla• Petrified Petrol

Pump• 2010