Ana Mendieta

Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta's ritualistic performances and haunting "earth-body" sculptures of the 1970s resonate with visceral metaphors of death, rebirth, and spiritual transformation. Much of her work expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement . A seminal figure in feminist art practice, Mendieta devised an emblematic female iconography that is infused with power and poetry.   full biography