What do ice cream, seaweed, and soccer balls have in common?
By Britt Julious Published: December 1st, 2007 | 12:00am Quisqueya Henriquez may not be the first artist to work with curious combinations, but she is the first to incorporate seawater ice cream into a sculpture, as she did for one of her standout pieces, “Caribbean Sea Water Ice Cream” (2002), for which she imported six gallons of water from the Dominican Republic. The ice cream is commentary on frequent stereotypes of people from the Caribbeanas “hot-blooded” and employs the artist’s most common tool: irony. “Irony is like a very strong instrument for people, for our political reality, our social reality,” Henriquez says. Henriquez’s first U.S.solo show and museum survey of her work, Quisqueya Henriquez: The World Outside, showcases her 16-year career at the Bronx Museum of the Arts through January 2008. In it, she exhibits work incorporating a number of media, including constructions, installations, videos, sound art, photographs, and the documentation of participatory art. This bro
