Lita Albuquerque
Lita Albuquerque's internationally-renowned work brings the realities of vast time and space to a human scale via ephemeral and permanent art works executed in the natural landscape and in public sites. Lita Albuquerque's exploration of scale as an essential part of creating meaning from the objects seen at the Museum. In Conversations her work is inspired by a tiny brittle starfish from the Museum's Malacology collection.
Read Lita Albuquerque's full biography.
Read Lita Albuquerque's artist statment.
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Ángel Valdés
Ángel Valdés is a Curator of Malacology specializing in the biogeography of mollusks and sea slugs.
Read Ángel Valdés' full biography.
Read Ángel Valdés' curatorial statement.
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Malacology
In Conversations, Lita Albuquerque's OPHIODERMA teres
is inspired by a brittle starfish and includes a fossil brachiopod named Paraspirifer bownockeri.
View a photograph of the artwork.
Visit the Museum's online Malacology Department.
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