Lost and Found: Assessments of Suzi Ferrer‘s Decade-Long Career in Puerto Rico

Abstract

This essay maps Suzi Ferrer‘s career, beginning with her earliest known work and culminating with a brief study of a work that the artist considered her most mature: complex, immersive art installations she produced in the first half of the 1970s. This body of work is discussed through a proto-feminist Pop art lens, where female sexuality and pleasure are at the forefront. As with other female Pop artists of her generation, Ferrer created works that subverted the political and social status quo, which were influenced by the sexual liberation movement and the second-wave feminism.