Artist Statement
Art, identity, and mental health are central to my work as a interdisciplinary Chicana feminist artist. Living and working in San Antonio, Texas; my work looks at the colonized history of racialized ethnic groups living within the United States popular imaginary. With that said, I’m interested in performativity and what the body’s affective response looks like through art: self-portraiture, wearable sculptures, painting, photography, and mixed media collage.
Art, identity, and mental health are central to my work as a interdisciplinary Chicana feminist artist. Living and working in San Antonio, Texas; my work looks at the colonized history of racialized ethnic groups living within the United States popular imaginary. With that said, I’m interested in performativity and what the body’s affective response looks like through art: self-portraiture, wearable sculptures, painting, photography, and mixed media collage.
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Chicana Feelings
An ongoing autoethnographic project, CHICANA FEELINGS works to represent a Chicana experience in San Antonio, Texas by aiming to articulate a self-reflexive artistic conversation to actualize a tactile reality of Mestiza Consciousness. A response to what has been rejected and embraced, it is the process of resolving conflict and loss in the context of mental health. I am guided by questions framed to understand the ways that art, identity, and healing expand our notions about relationships to Self, and the sociocultural world. How do artists enact agency to understand the conditions of themselves? How does oppression operate against the body? And how does this translate through art? This exhibition involves interdisciplinary research, prose, and visual art to articulate - Art as an Embodied Practice: Artistic Expression, Conocimiento, and Identity Formation; my graduate thesis which works to Identify ways of understanding intersectional identity. By exploring these relationships, this exhibition makes meaning of survival with self-portraiture, paintings, video, and installation as it engages dialogue between anonymity and preservation. CHICANA FEELINGS is supported in part by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, and Southwest Airlines through a grant from the NALAC Fund for the Arts.
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Attacks on Our Environment or When We Imitate Those We Fear as a Path to Survival, 2017.
Acrylic on Canvas. 72” x 58”.
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If I Were a Plant, I’d Feel Pain or When Your Defense Mechanism Is Rooted in Isolation, 2017.
Acrylic on Canvas. 72” x 58”.
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Video Still. I Fight With It. 41 Sec. 2017.
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Video Still. I Fight With It. 41 Sec. 2017.
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Installation View. Chicana Feelings, 2017. Embroidery thread, found fabric, ivy & aloe vera plants. 36” x 50”.
Remedies for re(membering)
Installation View. Remedies for Re(membering). 168" x 84". A Woman's Place Is... 2017.
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Remedies for Re(membering) Series. C-print. 24" x 36". 2016-2017.
Hand Embroidery Work
Tyrant Be Gone. 4" x 5". 2017.
Embroidered Prayers - Betsy DeVos. 4" x 5". Red thread on photo transfer, fabric. 2018.
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Embroidered Tears. Found dress, red cotton thread, gold plated hanger, brass with marble hook. 2018.
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Detail. Tyrant Be Gone. 4" x 5". 2017.
Embroidered Prayers - Scott Pruitt. 4" x 5".
Red thread on photo transfer, fabric. 2018.
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I Will Not Assist Your Economy With My Children. Acrylic, thread, foam. 30" x 40". 2012.
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Acrylic. 24" x 36". 2012.
Fiber Wall Hangings
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Self-Portrait. 24" x 36". 2013.
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Bodies As Statements. Fiber, spray paint, silk flowers, paper, tape, foam, wire. 60” x 60”. 2013.
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Feminine/Masculine Identities. C-print. 24” x 36”. 2013
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