About Me
Born in Madrid, Spain in 2002. Recent graduate of Parsons School of Design at The New School, New York City with a BFA in Fine Arts and a Minor in Museum and Curatorial Studies. Graduated from Runnymede College, Madrid, Spain in 2020.
Artist Statement
My work portrays the female form of women I know by creating abstracted and non-traditional intimate portraits, embodying their reality and lived experiences through paintings. The aim is to challenge the traditional portrayal of women in art in two dimensions, by contrasting the ideal canonical beauty in mainstream art through the real and the body as lived experiences, not as an object. With the paintings I make, I ask the audience if it is possible to feel and look with the body instead of looking at the body. I confront this by representing an honest female figure with all its considered faults and imperfections that have been previously hidden. I am rendering women I know in a unique way, through close-ups of uncommonly shown areas of the female body coupled with the intentional use of color guided by my detailed conversations with the subjects.
In the Organic Landscapes series, I aim to portray the female form working against its historical portrayal, depicting unidentifiable bodily shapes to unlearn what the female body should look like. I reflected on texts of Amelia Jones, Alberto Magro, and John Berger that address past distortions and exaggerations of bodily features based on what was attractive during a specific period and the “male gaze” aligning female representation with masculine subjectivity and pleasure.
The works in my other series Embodied Experiences act as a physical translation of intimate and personal conversations between the subjects and myself, reflecting how these women’s bodies are associated with their environments and how their body has become a vessel that embodies subjective experiences. I learned there are two bodily presences, one being the biological entity and the other the experienced entity. When I portray one of my subjects, I know her body is much more than just her physicality so I come from a place that recognizes its lived reality. There is this invisible immateriality of emotions, experiences, and sexuality that is attached to their form. I am now exploring a second reality – the reflection of the interior mental world onto the external image, one where the mind is also taking part in how one views their body and it is presented to the world.