Statement
True art is a balance between intellect and emotion. It seeks to engage the audience’s aesthetic sensibilities by stimulating an individual’s thoughts and emotions.
My representation of reality is achieved through mimesis. I explore the relationship between the visible world and what lies beneath the surface, dwelling in other dimensions and realities. From the Yungas where the giant jungle holds my native city Orán, Salta, Argentina in a close green embrace, to multi-cultural Montreal where I lived ten years, discovering achromatic and monochromatic winter blues and pastel shades in spring, to my current nesting spot in Winston Salem, North Carolina, where the Atlantic Coastal Plain throws up amber brown shadows against the purple, sunlit Blue Ridge, I have drawn inspiration to create my perception of the environments that have impacted my sensibilities.
I prefer to work on two or three canvases at a time—there is a need for continuous movement in my work. Typically I begin with vigorous, divergent brushstrokes. Each canvas will have many layers of paint. As a painting evolves, I begin to take a more analytical and critical approach, refining and resolving the elements of the composition—images, shapes, movement, light, and color.
The finished product can sometimes be perceived as a pentimento with references to previous work, so that there is a contest of appearances rather than factual accuracy—the visual experience of texture and surface—an interest not in exactitude, but the way light filtered through layers underpainting.
Biography
I am a native of Orán, Salta, in northern Argentina. I studied at the National University of Córdoba and earned BA’s in Art Education and Fine Art, with a major in painting. I have taught art both in secondary and tertiary institutions in Argentina and Montreal, Quebec. Since locating to Winston Salem, NC, I’ve been able to focus solely on my career as a painter. I have studied with David Kessler in abstract painting workshops.
Throughout my career, I have participated in various exhibitions Salta and Córdoba, Argentina, in Montreal, Quebec, and Winston Salem, North Carolina.
In 2021, my art was recognized by the FedEx Global Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I was selected as one of 13 artists of Latin American heritage, residing in North Carolina, to be included in the exhibit “Being & Belonging – Perspectives in North Carolina”, presented at the UNC Global Education Center in Chapel Hill. https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2021/10/university-being-and-belonging-preview
My paintings have sold and I’ve done commissions in the Salta region of Argentina, Canada, France, Israel and the southeastern region of the United States.