Portlandia (College and Cosmos) by Hector H. Hernandez
- Title: Portlandia (College and Cosmos)
- Artist: Hector H. Hernandez
- Medium: Acrylic on canvas
- Size: 78"h x 121"w
- Creation date: 2001
- Added to collection: 2001
- Donor: Commissioned by ASPCC
- Campus: Rock Creek
- Location: B2/244 College Assistance Migrant Program
This large painting was commissioned by students from AS±¬ÁÏÍøRock Creek to celebrate the turn of the Millennium. The artist, Hector H. Hernandez, developed the imagery with input from AS±¬ÁÏÍøstudents (who also served as models) to create a phantasmagoria where Chichen Itza meets Mount Hood, Portlandia joins hands with an Aztec Bird God, Microelectronics patterns appear as stone temple carvings, and Building 7 gets repainted in candy colors. Such imagery of the ancient and modern is in the tradition of the Mexican muralists such a David Siqueros and Arnold Belkin, with whom Hernandez studied in Mexico City.