Monday, February 22, 2016
Artist Q & A
I did an interview for Art and Provenance concerning my artistic process, influences, and inspiration. Please check it out along with the rest of the blog! Thanks Provenance Gallery!
Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio
Devil's Trumpet is on the CAM calendar. Please check out the event details along with all of the other exciting art events: Devil's Trumpet for CAM
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016
PROGRESS on Devil's Trumpet
Things are coming together and my studio, much like my brain, has almost reached capacity. I am creating every piece for this show using fabric, lace, leather, pins, cactus, and seeds. Please join me at Provenance Gallery on Saturday, March 12th for the opening. Here are some progress shots:
lace ghost hands taking shape
black safety pin cactus spines
an all-seeing eye
a house from a recurring childhood dream made of leather scraps
tiny morbid things
leather skull
lots of gold in this show
snipping pins to better fit the thickness of the cork board I use as a canvas
gold velvet panne nopal
Upcoming Solo Show at Provenance Gallery
I've been pouring all of my efforts of late into an upcoming solo show at Provenance Gallery opening Saturday, March 12th. I am continuing with bizarre, metacognitive work exposing my artistic process of decoding dream symbols. The show is called Devil's Trumpet.
Datura, also known as Devil's Trumpet, is a highly toxic night-blooming flower that, if ingested, causes a state of delirium. Myths exist in multiple cultures in which the personified Datura plant aids people through dreams and visions.
I first became fascinated with this plant after purchasing one from a local flea market. I began to research some basic plant facts to better tend to it and discovered a symbolic connection to my current artwork. Here are some images of my favorite garden creature. You can see why I'm inspired and completely smitten…
Datura, also known as Devil's Trumpet, is a highly toxic night-blooming flower that, if ingested, causes a state of delirium. Myths exist in multiple cultures in which the personified Datura plant aids people through dreams and visions.
I first became fascinated with this plant after purchasing one from a local flea market. I began to research some basic plant facts to better tend to it and discovered a symbolic connection to my current artwork. Here are some images of my favorite garden creature. You can see why I'm inspired and completely smitten…
Datura metel aka Devil's Trumpet opening just after sundown
Devil's Trumpet seedpod
SELENA LOTERIA
In December, I participated in Selena Loteria, a fun Selena-themed Loteria show featuring San Antonio artists. This event was organized by local artist, musician, extraordinaire: Pink Leche. My contribution was #33, La Arana. I used lace, paper and thread to pay tribute to La Reina.
Women Who Dare
I was honored to have my Seer and Hand Talker pieces included in the Women Who Dare exhibition at the Carver Cultural Center in November. This show was curated by Sarah Castillo and Anel Flores.
How Dare You: A Multi-Media Exhibition
Opening Reception from 5-8 pm at the Carver Community Cultural Center. Thursday, November 5th.
There is art in everything. Our home, our phone, our car, and even something as complex as our physical body. And, in the rat race that is life, there tends to be very little art that causes us to stop and implore the lines, functions, and story that lie within it. How Dare You? will exhibit works of art by San Antonio women artists who stimulate, provoke, and capture her viewers; allowing space for the movement and speed of the competing world to fall away.
Thirteen artists will be featured in this show - Claudia Zapata, Leticia Rocha Živadinović, Audrya Flores, Raquel Zawrotny, Linda Arredondo, Kristel Puente, Kat Shevchenko, Stephanie Torres, Adriana Garcia, Maria Vasconcellos, Amanda Bartlett and Ashley Mireles.
Curated by Anel I. Flores and Sarah Castillo.
Exhibition Dates: Thurs, November 5 - Friday,November 27
Monday-Friday - 7:45am-4:30pm @ 226 N. Hackberry, 78202.
Opening Reception from 5-8 pm at the Carver Community Cultural Center. Thursday, November 5th.
There is art in everything. Our home, our phone, our car, and even something as complex as our physical body. And, in the rat race that is life, there tends to be very little art that causes us to stop and implore the lines, functions, and story that lie within it. How Dare You? will exhibit works of art by San Antonio women artists who stimulate, provoke, and capture her viewers; allowing space for the movement and speed of the competing world to fall away.
Thirteen artists will be featured in this show - Claudia Zapata, Leticia Rocha Živadinović, Audrya Flores, Raquel Zawrotny, Linda Arredondo, Kristel Puente, Kat Shevchenko, Stephanie Torres, Adriana Garcia, Maria Vasconcellos, Amanda Bartlett and Ashley Mireles.
Curated by Anel I. Flores and Sarah Castillo.
Exhibition Dates: Thurs, November 5 - Friday,November 27
Monday-Friday - 7:45am-4:30pm @ 226 N. Hackberry, 78202.
Hand Talker
Hand Talker
2015
fabric, leather, lace, yarn, pins, cactus
28" x 40"
Years of battling anxiety have taught me this truth: I possess the ability to harm or heal myself. The choice is mine. Often, my anxiety manifests itself in my hands through fist clenching, fidgeting, or sweating. And still, I choose to purpose these hands for cultivating, for mothering, and for making.
This self-portrait is part of a series of assemblage work that seeks to explain my artistic process. I create tactile representations of my dream symbols as a way to decode their meanings and resolve the conflicts they represent.
2015
fabric, leather, lace, yarn, pins, cactus
28" x 40"
Years of battling anxiety have taught me this truth: I possess the ability to harm or heal myself. The choice is mine. Often, my anxiety manifests itself in my hands through fist clenching, fidgeting, or sweating. And still, I choose to purpose these hands for cultivating, for mothering, and for making.
This self-portrait is part of a series of assemblage work that seeks to explain my artistic process. I create tactile representations of my dream symbols as a way to decode their meanings and resolve the conflicts they represent.
Seer
Seer
2015
fabric, lace, ribbon, pins, wire, seedpod, paper
45" x 20"
I find the dream world liberating. Free from my physical body, I am able to navigate my own fear, shame, bliss, sadness, and pleasure without witnesses. Without time. Without weight. These feelings present themselves as images: vivid and haunting. I can see them. I can name name them. And they are me.
This self-portrait is part of a series of assemblage work that seeks to explain my artistic process. I create tactile representations of my dream symbols as a way to decode their meanings and resolve the conflicts they represent.
2015
fabric, lace, ribbon, pins, wire, seedpod, paper
45" x 20"
I find the dream world liberating. Free from my physical body, I am able to navigate my own fear, shame, bliss, sadness, and pleasure without witnesses. Without time. Without weight. These feelings present themselves as images: vivid and haunting. I can see them. I can name name them. And they are me.
This self-portrait is part of a series of assemblage work that seeks to explain my artistic process. I create tactile representations of my dream symbols as a way to decode their meanings and resolve the conflicts they represent.
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