Artist Statement
In my art, I manipulate symbols that deal with ideas about femininity and the role of women in art history. I draw and paint and present these issues in an over the top gorgeous way. Among some of my interests are Spanish colonial art and Minimalism. I paint some of the things that women have been historically associated with, like flowers lace and embroidery. I monumentalize them and give them a heroic place and scale that can remind one of high macho modern art.
By reenacting the process of making lace through drawing and painting, I capture the nature of lace making and create monumental works, intricate yet done with tiny strokes. In my large pieces I manage an economy of materials but explicitly explore the experience of identity and memory from a feminist perspective.
Simultaneously, I aim to capture the daily schism and emotions of living in between languages and cultures. My art is an expression of cultural syncretism and transculturation.
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