When Things Fall Apart 3, 2017 by Elan Cadiz

When Things Fall Apart 3, 2017, Acrylic on Cotton, 18 x 24 inches

When Things Fall Apart 3 is a series of paintings depicting chairs that are haphazardly towering in frozen space and time. The chairs represent people in formal and informal bureaucratic systems and the ways issues of power distribution is managed among them.

Elan Cadiz is an interdisciplinary North American Visual Artist that deconstructs and balances her intersectionality through her projects. Her art and practice are grounded in the documentation of her personal narrative through the use of historical imagery and the domestic. Elan Cadiz graduated from City College of New York with a BA in Studio Art and received an MFA Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts where she was awarded the SVA Merit Scholarship, Paul Rhodes Memorial Award and the Martha Trevor Award. Cadiz has been commissioned by the Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo de Barrio, Art in Flux Harlem, Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and more. She was one of the first Sustainable Arts Foundation AIRspace Parent Artist Residence at Abrons Art Center and her An American Family Album series was featured in VOGUE. Her artworks can also be found in New American Paintings magazine, issue #146.