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Lycoming College to display ‘Superheroes’ photography exhibit March 2-30 |
 Dulce Pinzón’s photography exhibit “The Real Stories of the Superheroes,” will be on display in the Lycoming College Art Gallery from March 2-30. Pinzón will give a gallery talk and attend an artist’s reception March 27 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the art gallery. “Superheroes” introduces the Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical style and is being featured as a part of the College’s spring symposium, “Beyond Borders: Navigating Immigration Within The U.S.”
Pinzón’s collection features 20 color photographs of ordinary Mexican immigrants in their normal work environments dressed in superhero costumes. According to Pinzón, these ordinary men and women, dressed as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and others, represent the little-recognized workers caught between the American economy, which is dependant on Mexican immigrant labor, and the Mexican economy, which is dependant on the money these laborers send to their families in Mexico. Pinzón says that the goal of this collection is to “pay homage to these brave and determined men and women that somehow manage, without the help of any supernatural power, to withstand extreme conditions of labor in order to help their families and communities survive and prosper.” Pinzón, born in Mexico City in 1974, resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. She studied mass media communications at the Universidad de Las Americas in Puebla, Mexico and photography at Indiana University in Pennsylvania. In 1995, Pinzón moved to New York City to study at the International Center of Photography. In New York, Pinzón found inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations. Since then, Pinzón’s work has been published and exhibited in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Argentina and Europe. Pinzón is a 2006 fellow in photography from the New York Foundation of the Arts. |
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