<p style="text-align: center;"><b>February 6, 2008- April 11, 2009</b></p>
Harry Hernández is currently one of Puerto Rico’s most promising young painters. Trained in the prestigious San Carlos Academy in Mexico, his work incorporates paintings with various forms of multi-media, including projections, digital imaging, video, still photography and collage.  <i>This conceptual art project required the use and manipulation of new media and technology.  </i>Open house was a series of 16 mixed media work on paper 36’ x 44’.  The series was based on images gathered over a period of several months in the neighborhood of Santurce, Puerto Rico focusing on homeless people at the bus stop Avenue 22 in Santurce.  The series combined two diametrically opposite realities, i.e. the physical degradation of the homeless people with its devastating social effects, addiction to drugs, etc. and the aesthetic of brightness and false luxury of their condition.  Thus, the works appear like diametrical opposites, reflecting the great contradictions of society.  As artist Antonio Martorell states in the statement that accompanied the exhibit, “The artist is both a sympathetic witness of street inhabitants and a carnival barker of horror side shows”.

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