Artist Statement
How do we internalize our deepest feelings, pain, love, death and fear: how does life imprint upon us and transform us from the inside out? The work I create explores these kinds of transfigurations and joins figures and forms in metamorphoses that reveal a relationship between biology and emotion.
This work is a display of internal vulnerability. The impact of emotions on the figure, a kind of self-portrait, transforms it into something new. Its honesty lies with the poetics of intertwining organic non-description and intrinsic emotions. I am attempting to discover and correlate patterns of growth in nature with the internal emotional growth occurring within myself.
Bio
Phoenix native, first generation American, Hispanic, strong, single mother. Bachelors degree in sculpture from Arizona State University. Currently working as a mold maker at Bollinger Atelier, a blue chip art foundry in Tempe Arizona. Exhibiting work across the U.S. in cast metal sculpture. Tattooer and shop partner of Sefo Ink in Glendale Arizona. Bull fighter extraordinaire.
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
Belly of the Beast National Cast metal exhibition, Stephen Smith Fine Art Gallery Alabama, May 2018 through August 2018
Reflections, Gallery 100 ASU school of Art, March 2018
Survival Faculty and Students of Arizona State University Woods program, Practical Art-Feb. 2018
105 Days, Art Haus-2017
Truth or Fiction, Art Haus-May 2017
Slip casting exhibition ASU school of art Hallway display-2016-2017
Hallway exhibition at ASU’s school of art-Nov 2016- metal sculpture
Blueshift-Herberger Institue for design and the Arts -May 2016
Steeling the Masters-Tempe Center for the Arts sculpture garden Feb.-April 2016
Glendale Arts Council 53rd Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition-Saguaro Ranch Park- January 2016
Pancakes and Booze- The Deuce- January 2016
El Amor De Frida-Burton Barr Central Library Exhibit-July 2015
Recycle Art Exhibit-Wham Art Gallery-April 2015
Three At North- Glendale Community College North Student Art Exhibition-March 2015
Student Art Exhibition- Glendale Community College Main-March 2015
Pancakes and Booze-The Deuce-January 2015
The Shoe Show-Domi Gallery-November 2014
Printmakers of Glendale Community College-Copper Star-June 2014
Student Art Exhibition-Glendale Community College Main-March 2014