My work stems from a loss of family history and fragmented memories. I paint from old photographs and embellish and eliminate imagery to highlight the complexities and imperfections of a nebulous recollection. I appropriate elements of my cultural heritage in order to reclaim and preserve the threads of my own Mexican ancestry. By painting from photos and fracturing the composition, I consider the contrast of belonging to something and nothing at the same time. As I reconstruct a history, my work begins to occupy a liminal space of illusion and reality; erasure and recovery; celebration and separation; the known and unknown.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Texas at Arlington and my Master of Arts from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. I am currently a M.F.A. candidate in painting from the University of Dallas..