Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
I’ve lived a life of constant change, balancing the familiarity of the past and the uncertainty of the future. Growing up between Mexico and the United States, born to a Mormon father who migrated before my birth, I was deported at age 13, came out at 15, and was kicked out of my home at 19. My work wrestles with this ambivalence, creating a space of endless possibility – without borders, limits and dichotomies – embracing transformation and authenticity where one can be multiple things at the same time: an object and a person, real and fictitious, male and female, and all their intersections.
With an interdisciplinary practice, I use my personal experiences as a microcosm representing broader social, sexual, and political issues. As fragmented memory, my work is formed, constructed and reconstructed just as I have done over the years. It undergoes transformation through various methods like scanning, drawing, painting, cutting, rephotography, and the incorporation of written language, resulting in new, often fragmented compositions.