Lillian Heredia: Yield
@ Lillstreet Art Center
4401 N Ravenswood, Chicago, IL 60640
Opening Thursday, January 9th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, January 26th
verb
1. produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).
“the land yields grapes and tobacco”
2. give way to arguments, demands, or pressure.
“the Western powers now yielded when they should have resisted”
noun
the full amount of an agricultural or industrial product.
“the milk yield was poor”
BIO
Lillian Heredia’s work grapples with the lived experience of chronic pain, religion, sustenance farming, and motherhood through the lens of her background in biology and chemistry. She lives and works in Chicago, IL where her work has been shown at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, SAIC Galleries, Woman Made Gallery, The Martin, Purple Window, SITE Galleries, Circle Contemporary, and Chicago Sculpture International. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2011 and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in sculpture. Lillian is a recipient of the Presidential Merit Scholarship and has been a finalist in the Pinnacle Awards and the Documentary Family Awards. Her work is currently featured on Comfort Station’s Artist to Watch series, and she is a 3Arts/Bodies of Work artist in residence.
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