Artist Statement

I am a first-generation immigrant, this influences how I experience the world around me. My work is focused on figures and their transformation that depends on the context of setting and iconography. The figure is fascinating as a subject because it allows the artist to explore texture, color, and form. It mainly allows people to empathize or sympathize with these humanoid figures of different backgrounds. My work strives to explore human relationships with the “other”. I often play with the figures and organic shapes because they are interesting, they can be manipulated without losing what their nomenclature represents. I am inspired by artists like Frida Khalo, Diego Rivera, Beckmann, Guston, and Goya and by the socio-politics of everyday life in the Southern United States. My interest in the Setting vs Human/ Human vs Other was ignited early in life because I migrated to different places within Mexico and eventually to the United States. During my formative years, I generated a strong sense of wonder for these relationships between bodies and the environments we place them under. Figures represent something very ephemeral in the way that what we see is never in the present. We recollect images and our memories are stitched from there.