Artist Mónica Hernández Is Changing the Way We Perceive Art

For New York-based painter Mónica Hernández, Caribbean art means much more than being circumscribed as novelty. For the Dominican Republican native, the diaspora defines her heritage and Hernández has taken it upon herself to change the way her community's artistic oeuvre is perceived. By unabashedly depicting women's bodies in their natural state, her paintings possess a duality: expanding the female gaze while introspectively exploring womanhood through provocative portraiture. Through her ...