"Earthly Bound" Artist Talk with Alejandra Cuadra and Ashley Page

Marie Craig

The interdisciplinary artists explore materiality and storytelling, guiding them into a
symphony of sensibility, femininity, and liberty.

Join long-time friends and collaborators Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez and Ashley Page in a virtual conversation about how they use art-making as a tool for personal liberation and creative freedom. Rooted in traditional methods of craft, such as paper making, textiles, and ceramics, the artists infuse their practices with their personal histories and ongoing explorations, showcasing their unapologetic, authentic selves. As interdisciplinary artists weaving together their discoveries, Cuadra and Page create a space where their conversations come to life in inventive mixed-media installations. Their joint exhibition, “Earthly Bound” is a symphony of materials, voices, images, and text that offers insight into the artists’ minds and hearts. On view at Fountain Street Gallery from March 2nd - March 28th, this exhibition is a warm invitation into their world. Alejandra Cuadra Sanchez embraces clay, wood, mixed media, and her proud Latina sensibility as she weaves, braids, and knots together her history—what was, what is, and what is to come. Feeling neither from here nor there, Cuadra seeks to reconnect to her roots in Peru. As an interdisciplinary maker, she says, “I don’t want to limit how I speak to just one medium.” In her practice, she harnesses the history of found objects and threads together meditations on identity, displacement, traditions, belonging, and a desire for freedom. Her installations reflect her quest—what it means to belong within the body, soul, community, and the rooted valleys on earth. Through her works she seeks to create a space where we can hear and feel aspects of the human heart that connect us all. Ashley Page sees her practice as a vessel to present diverse representation and visibility to the African American image, intellect, and spirit. Merging traditional textile/fiber techniques with sculptural sensibilities and applications, her work reinterprets abstract portraiture. Stemming from a multi-racial home, Page often thinks about how the fusion of different cultures, teachings, and ancestral memory has led her down this path—one of exploring how seemingly unrelated materials and techniques intertwine to create a new narrative. She describes her work as “an ode to the people who came before me, a reflection of the time in which I currently reside, and a point of reference for those in the future.” As a maker, a curator, a woman of color, a community member, a little sister, and a daughter, she creates space for dialogue, representation, intergenerational exchange, and creative expression.

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