Regina Corritore
The last 5200 years, The Fifth Sun, has been the age of patriarchy and duality: men and women, black and white, up and down, powerful and powerless. This art work was inspired by a news story I heard in New Mexico about twenty-three women’s bodies having been unearthed in the desert. Hidden, buried and erased these women’s voices had been negated. How many women have been obliterated or forgotten over the years? This work honors those known and unknown lives to herald their spirits and to call out for justice.
Regina Araujo Corritore has been making art and exhibiting professionally for more than 30 years. Born in New York City, she was interested in feminist art and multicultural art organizations from the very start. In the 1980’s she co-founded Vistas Latinas artist collective, and was an early member of Ceres Gallery and Coast to Coast: women artists of color. Corritore has exhibited at such venues as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, and The Hillwood Art Museum, all in New York.
In the 1990’s and 2000’s Ms. Corritore lived and worked in New Mexico, exhibiting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, The Albuquerque Museum, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque N.M., and was an Artist-in-Residence at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Since 2014 Regina Corritore has lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. and is a current a member of Ceres Gallery.
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