Galleries

Artist Statement

In my art, I have consistently reflected on the cycles of repression and resistance and its relationship to the diaspora in which I have lived, throughout dictatorship, revolution, erasure, renewal, hope, dictatorship and repression. My prints center these types of life experiences occurring far beyond my country. I create to counteract the great silence around repression occurring globally believing we are all intimately connected to it. I seek to demystify the “foreign” experience, to bridge the distances that life across any border or wall produces, but also, the difference in the content of these experiences.

I create to bring awareness to the interconnectedness among them, focusing on injustices of social, political, economic and environmental injustice. At times I evoke with satirical images, at others, through the mundane, unseen things people carry: memories, attachments, relationships and traumas. In each I highlight the myriad cycles of oppression and struggle.

Master Prints

In this series of prints I appropriate and re-contextualize “Masterpieces of Art”, borrowing their compositional strategies and sometimes their titles, but inserting contemporary imagery with sarcasm and satire to create new works.“Master Prints”, una serie de grabados en los cuales empleo el proceso de apropiación, variación e intervención de “Obras Maestras”, usando en algunos casos sus títulos y estrategias de composición e insertándoles imágenes e iconos contemporáneos dentro de su contenido original, que muchas veces transgrede o contradice su significado original creando así una nueva obra de arte.

Años de Miedo

“Años de Miedo” (Years of Fear) is a Print Portfolio in homage to the victims of war, based on my memories and the collective historical memory of my country (Nicaragua) in the decades of the 70′s and 80′s. But, at the same time, this does not mean that it is limited geographically, because it is the reality in many countries at present.El Portafolio de Grabados “Años de Miedo” es un homenaje a las víctimas de las Guerras, está basado en mis memorias y la memoria histórica-colectiva de mi país (Nicaragua), en las décadas de los 70′s y 80′s. pero esto no significa que esté limitado geográficamente, pues es la realidad de muchos países actualmente.

Artworks 2007 – 1997

This Gallery is a selected collection of my artworks between 2007 – 1997.Esta Galería es una colección selecta de mis trabajos entre el 2007 y 1997.