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Amalia Mesa-Baines is a sculptor whose altar installations incorporate Mexican historical figures in the arts, religion, and cinema. She uses symbols in her work such as skulls, hearts, crosses and images of the Virgin. One of her major works, "Altar for San Juana Ines de la Cruz" (1982), is a mixed media of wood, paper and cloth. She has exhibited at the Galeria, and also at the Museum of Art in San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a dissertation on Chicana women artists. She has depicted women such as the Virgin of Quadalupe, Catholic nuns, fertility goddesses, Mexican actress Dolores del Río and Frida Kahlo in drawings and altars. Her alters have transformed from the political Chicano movement to personal cultural exploration. Sources:
-Dr. Shifra Goldman, Dimensions of the Americas.
-http://www.universes-in-universe.de/english.htm
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