En la barbería no se llora (No crying allowed in the barber shop) 1994 Installation: Barber’s chairs, VCR, video monitors, mixed media collage. Dimensions vary.
	About the work

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This piece is a community arts installation project originally created for exhibition at 481 Park Street in Hartford, Connecticut, the heart of the Latino community. The work is lled with video images and hundreds of assembled objects that offer a serious look at masculinity and machismo in the Latino community. The red velvet barber’s chairs with silkscreened torsos decorated with dozens of miniature gures, and the instruments and other objects that refer to male sports, male pride, and Puerto Rican nationalism are an analog to machismo. The piece, created in collaboration with a housing development agency, city barbers, and many members of the Hartford Latino community, was commissioned by Real Art Ways, Hartford.”P.O.

1955	born
1978	BS Herbert H. Lehman College, Bronx, NY
1985	M.A. Columbia University, New York, NY
	Independent artist; lives in New York, NY