Reflections on her recent show, “Unmoored” at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, Sep-Nov 2020:
“The original Immigration Nation dealt with the theme of migrants and their journey to make a new home. I have used some of the sculpture from that piece in Immigration Nation II. This continuation deals with those immigrants who are now facing deportation. The ropes represent the lack of choice or control they face in their lives. May viewers have commented that they interpret the piece in relation to Covid-19; the tied together groups like “pods” of safety. The viewer is always free to interpret art in any way that touches them. That touch is the focus for me as an artist.”
-Nora Valdez
Currently Nora is working on the “We Heal” project with the Creative City Grant from NEFA.
The project originally was called Healing Space but because Valdez could not meet in person she started hosting zoom meetings. Those will be incorporated into a video installation. The project will feature a documentary and a book where Nora will showcase all the art she has been doing with the patients from Boston Medical, Dana Farber Cancer Center and youth from Urbano project.
Here is the link for the page that Urbano is hosting for the works in progress. http://urbanoproject.org/we-heal-nora-valdez
Coming up in 2021: Unfolding Roads at Fountain St Fine Art, Boston featuring
Alexandra Rozenman + Nora Valdez
February 3–February 28, 2021
SoWa First Friday Art Walk: Friday, February 5, 2021 | 5–8PM
Visit www.fsfaboston.com for current operating hours
BOSTON, MA – Beginning February 3, 2021, Fountain Street Gallery will exhibit “Unfolding
Roads,” featuring painting and collage by Alexandra Rozenman and sculpture and drawing by
Nora Valdez. The artists have traveled through time and across continents—Rozenman is
originally from the Soviet Union and Valdez from Argentina. Their respective journeys and
powerful artistic visions cross paths here in SoWa. The works in this exhibition are inspired by
the arduous road that immigrants travel and the related search for belonging, rootedness, and
home.