Contemporary Fine Artist



Biography

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she studied sculpture, drawing, painting and photography under prestigious artists and filmmaking at Escuela de Cine de Avellaneda and Universidad Tecnologica National in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lives in USA where she continued her art education at University of Connecticut and Silvermine School of Arts. Since 1998 she has exhibited her work in several states, in art galleries, museums and cultural centers. She has participated in several juried shows and many of her works are in private collections in several countries such as USA, Italy and Spain.



Artist Statement

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I create monochromatic paintings using a limited color palette of white, black and occasionally red while putting my focus entirely on shape, line and texture. I use abstract imagery in a grid-like composition, of a geometric nature using repetition and overlapping. I use a variety of techniques and media in a non-traditional way because I want to push the limits of a medium and expand their possibilities to a point where the medium is not easily recognizable any more. In my work, I explore the concept of duality, or the unity of opposites, as it defines the existence of a situation depending on the co-existence of its opposite. I stretch this fluid concept by focusing on either opposite while considering both as a possibility at the same time. Concepts such as the permanent and the temporal, the everlasting and the ephemeral, the real and the perceived are some of the themes I explore. Since last year my work shifted to look more industrial-like. There are certain aspects of this painting series that look like wire connections, stitching, or certain attachments that have a machine-like resemblance. Working within the concept of unity of opposites, the real and the perceived, my works are a reflection of this original concept by the fact of having a condition of machine-like objects while at the same time not being real objects at all. In a way these objects are my perception and depiction of scientific and technological ideas.



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