About ME

  I am an artist born and raised in Tucson, AZ. I have my BFA in drawing and painting from the University of Arizona, and an MA in Arts and Visual Culture Education also from the University of Arizona.  I am now pursuing my PhD in Mexican American Studies (@ UA) where my research includes art as research.

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   In my recent work, I have been creating prints, paintings and sculptures that explore ideas of the esoteric, collective knowledge/inherent memory and reclamation of cultural identity. I have been exploring time, dimensions, dreams and nature by means of repetition with the process of relief prints and letterpress methods. My prints and paintings read like alien languages, spells and rituals. I use art to unpack information and have been tracing my family lineage and in doing so am evoking the knowledge and memory of those in my family who have passed.  

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   In my PhD coursework I am drawn to the concepts of the holistic body (indigenous, original people, Chicanx/Latinx) as knowing (conocimiento). I aim to do studies on dreaming, creating and observing Chicanx/Latinx art, and doing archival research of ancient Aztec and Mayan codices as a through to inherent knowledge and structures of indigenous thought with links to mesoamerican anatomy.  So far I have written academic papers that explored the Anzalduan theories of conocimiento, nepantla, nos/otras, and spiritual activism and used these theories as a method in creating and viewing Chicanx/Latinx artworks.