Tree of Life
Exhibition of work created for MFA thesis, containing paintings of mexed media, ceramic, textile and wood.
The subject and what surrounds it is one, represented as both opposed and united—for example, the exterior and interior of a body and the intersection between the background and the subject. The painting is structured in layers like a palimpsest, playing on notions of the generative capacities that the medium can carry while creating the volume and heavines in a flat surface. Using all these materials together helps the work exist on many levels.
2017
La Tierra
Series of paintings, acrylic, oil and chalk on canvas and wood.
Open your eyes, there is beauty in everything. As for those of us who love to be astonished, there is so much to bear in the land we ihabite and the borders we cross..
2016
Nopales
Ceramic installation of white clay painted with natural Grana Cochinilla pigment and hing with hemp rope.
They are fluid, both a standard functional material and the container for something more. Most importantly, all materials are derived from the earth. By using them, I connect my work to my Mexican identity as well as express an appreciation for nature & Mexican notions of beauty. Cacti are a symbol of Mexico and the spirit of survival.
2015
Looking Blues
Painting installation of acrylic, pigmentsm, paint medium and chalk on canvas and wood.
Drawing with paint, I am rethinking the relationship between line, matter, figure and paint. The application of the medium itself: thick paint colliding with thin layers of watered down pigment create the narrative, layering paintings over paintings, worlds that ask to be erased or destroyed and then come alive once more completely different.
These anachronistic gestures are added to canvases spontaneously or deliberately, the gestural paint crossing borders and ideas, blurring lines, breaking format and the physical movement of making.
2015
Cuerpo
Using the body as a material and menas of creation, interacting with lanscape or other made subjects, the images are witnesses of the ephimeral.
In my grappling with the struggle of society vs. the individual, I have found that the body can serve as a site of self-examination and self-discovery. As a subject, it is fertile and substantial. As a material and subject that requires no special expense or expertise, the body is remarkably democratic, available to artists even in the most remote and economically deprived areas.
2017
Passenger Pigeon
Winner of the public art grant at SUNY Purchase the Passenger Pigeon mural depicts the image of the bird extinct in the state of New York , resembling the over thought of humankind over the strength and fragility of nature and its species.
2016
