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These paintings were inspired
by my
first visit to New Mexico in (2007)
Since a very young age I have always been fascinated by
the phenomenon of cultural and religious evolution, and how, in one way or another, our identity, race, beliefs and cultural
roots are related. My recent artwork involves the association of traditional Catholic, Hispanic, and Native religious
and cultural iconography, combining them into an impression that depicts a hybrid religion. By questioning, mixing and
restating traditional institutional images from a more deeply personal standpoint, I hope challenge the viewer’s first
impression, and traditional expectations. For instance, in “Midnight Sun”, images of Catholic and Native
religious iconography are combined with images drawn from my experience of the Acoma Pueblo Reservation and missions in New
Mexico. By combining religious and cultural iconography, the painting depicts the mysterious blend of two apparently
opposite cultures and beliefs.
In addition, many of my paintings
deal with the images of femininity and motherhood that are a part of both the traditional European Spanish Catholic and Native
American cultures and faiths. Since their initial colonial encounter, these faiths have intermingled and images
representing them hybridized. Depictions of women serve an excellent example of this intersection. Madonna as “Mother
earth” and “Mother of God”... the female role as life giver and life sustainer. My painting, “Guadalupe’s
Motherhood” address this issue through an impression in which I portrait the Lady of Guadalupe, breast feeding.
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