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Finishing up 2023 with this mural of solidarity, peace, and protest. A bouquet of faqqua iris, Sudán hibiscus, sunflower and Cantuta, for all of the Palestinian, Sudanese, Ukrainian and Peruvian civilians that have been killed, wounded, kidnapped and displaced in the name of genocide, corruption, ethnic cleansing, neocolonialism and greed in 2023. We have lost too many innocent lives this year. May we find peace in 2024 and demand ceasefire, justice, and humanitarian aid for the millions of displaced peoples fleeing human rights atrocities across the world.

Gracias a @monicamiros @jurgenwielandz @hydrane por tu amistad y camaradería <3 Que mejor manera de terminar el año que con una pintada con gente tan linda! Más por venir en el 2024!

“I Am the Captain of my own Ship!” One of two murals I painted for PS78x in East Bronx for @nycthrive! A group of Thrive artists have been filling the school with beautiful murals all based on the books “the 7 Habits of Happy Kids”. For this mural I did Habit #1: Be Proactive. Thank you to the staff and teachers at the school, to @handmademendez and @yip.pyart for the assist, and to Thrive for yet another fun and fulfilling opportunity :)

A final picture of the landscape mural I got to paint for @freshpaintspringfield @common.wealth.murals in Springfield, Il. This was such a wonderful experience; the town of Indian Orchard supported and encouraged me every single day, the production dream team took excellent care of me and made sure I had the best pastries in town, unlimited ice cold cokes, and every little creature comfort I could think of. Painting next to the Chicopee river with butterflies and dragon flies coming by to say hi was all I needed to recharge after a long, hot summer in the concrete jungle. Thank you for the invitation and the attention and thank you to the building owners for this beautiful idea!

#springfield #mural #streetart #muralfestival #landscapepainting #naturemural #chicopeeriver #indianorchard

acrylic and gold sharpie on paper

Ink and watercolor on paper

Ink and watercolor on paper

My piece for the Uptown Grand-scale Mural Project organized by @uptowngrandcentral on 125th and Lexington. Over 100 artists came through to paint four blocks worth of construction fence on the site of the demolished Pathmark. Thank you to my beautiful model @imayanaayo, not just for being a beautiful model but for all the hard work, sweat, and heart that you put into coordinating this project, and all the projects before it! Thank you for protecting me from foot fetish perverts and hanging out with me on the hottest day of the year even though you were probably suffering an actual heat stroke. That’s a real deal arts administrator and cultural organizer, guys. Let’s give it up for Ayana and Carey for being the two woman show responsible for this incredible project, bringing color and art to one of the most neglected blocks in the city and creating a space for artists to create freely together. Thank you, ladies, for all that you do <3

Mural for Hona Wellness in Dominical, Costa Rica, 2021

Acrylic on drywall

Ink and watercolor on paper

Mural for Hona Wellness in Dominical, Costa Rica, 2021

Acrylic on drywall

Acrylic on Watercolor paper

Painted for the NY Dept of Health Active Design Mural Program, this mural was designed in conjunction with the 8th graders of PS72 and painted independently at my home studio on parachute cloth. The mural includes interactive games and images of actual students.

55’ x 25’

Exhibited for the “Mujeres en El Poder” show at El Barrio Artspace, August 2019. Curated by Javier David Flores in conjunction with the National Assembly of Ecuador with support from the New York City Council.

Mural for La Pishcota Restaurant in Lima, Peru

My mural for Recuperando Barrios in the shantytown of San Juan de Lurigancho. Super beautiful initiative bringing art, music and dance to working class neighborhoods in Lima. This mural is of a boy playing Trompo, one of the oldest games in the world that is still popular with kids in Peru today.

Mi muro para Recuperando Barrios en el cerro de San Juan de Lurigancho. Súper linda iniciativa grassroots que trae arte, música, y danza a los niños de los Barrios populares de Lima. Este muro es de un niño jugando trompo, uno de los juegos más antiguos del mundo, que aún sigue popular con los niños de Peru hoy en día.

My mural for Lima Warmi Walls 2020, painted on the boardwalk of Magdalena del Mar

Mural for La Pishcota Restaurant in Lima, Peru

“The opposite of racist isn't 'not racist.' It is 'anti-racist.' What's the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an anti-racist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an anti-racist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an anti-racist. There is no in-between safe space of 'not racist.” - Dr. Ibram X Kendi

White supremacy is so much more than the KKK and neo-nazism, and one of the biggest fallacies that white people fall for is that racists are mean, bad people, therefore I cannot be racist because I’m a good person. The fact is that we have all internalized the Eurocentric rhetoric and the white supremacist ideals that systemic and institutionalized racism are built on, and we have all been complicit in this system in one way or another. we’ve all been programmed, tricked, and played against each other to justify the exploitation and violation of members of our society to ensure the rich stay rich and the powerful keep their power.

The first step to deprogramming is to educate yourself, research American history, the war on drugs, convict labor, redlining, black codes, police brutality, the income gap, white fragility, white privilege, racial inequity, the school to prison pipeline, Seneca village, the fashion district and the cotton industry, media bias, on and on and on. Take it upon yourself to do this research without placing the burden on your POC friends and coworkers to educate you. And when a person of color does choose to share their experience with you, listen. For more resources on how to fight for a more racially equitable future, here’s a link that I found by typing just that into google: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

Finished mural for @amazonarteperu #amazonarte4, dedicated to the Nahua community of Ucayali. After forced contact with westerners in the 1950s, the Nahua lost half of its population to disease. Today, the Nahua and the ecosystem they depend on are in serious risk due to expanding mining, logging, gas and oil extraction projects in their territories. More than 80% of the population have tested positive for mercury poisoning from an unknown source. This mural examines the values we place on Black gold, red gold, precious metals, and natural gas at the cost of human life, health, clean water, and biodiversity. This mural calls for the Peruvian government and health officials to Conduct testing to find the source of the mercury poisoning, and for governments across the world to hold extraction companies accountable for the consequences of their activities, advocate for your people and fight to protect your land.

Acrylic on plywood

My piece for Rifa Profondo to raise funds for @zelvauno to bring his powerful message of environmental and cultural conservation of the Amazon to France for the Museo Saint-Romano-en-Gal-Vienna.

Mural for @fridakeridahostal in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico

Mural for Restaurant Monarcho en bajada de baños, Barranco, Lima, Peru

This is just one of over twenty murals that make up the "Paseo de la Fama Inka" project organized by Abya Yala in San Juan de Lurigancho. The murals tell the story of Peruvian History and culture in chronological order from the beginning of civilization to the fall of the Incan empire.

My piece tells the story of the Caral people, the oldest known civilization in the America's (2600 BCE!), located about 200km north of Lima in the Supe Valley. The composition includes imagery of local flora and fauna (the Vermilion flycatcher and cotton, the principal crop of the Caral people), and actual architecture and artwork found at Caral-Chupacigarro archaeological sites, including a quipu, a mysterious record-keeping system that involves tying knots into ropes; and a mural that appears to depict the Caral people's struggle with famine and drought, the causes that may have ultimately led to the civilization's collapse.

Private commission

Acrylic on canvas

40” x 40”

Acrylic on Watercolor paper

Mural for @akumalartsfestival at the Akumal Community Center in Akumal, Mexico.

This mural depicts an interpretation of the Mayan goddess Ixchel kneeling in the Laguna Yal-Ku. Ixchel has been known at different times as Goddess of the earth, the moon, fertility, water, and the patroness of painters and textile weavers. She is often represented at different stages of life, from a young girl to an old woman, and embodies everything that a woman is: creative feminine energy, strength, love, versatility, endurance, sensuality, and tenderness.

Ixchel is represented in this piece in the likeness of Julissa, an 11-year old girl I met who attends art classes at the Community Center. She is Mayan but doesn’t speak her native language fluently and is embarrassed to use the words that she does know for fear of being teased or discriminated against. This piece aims to encourage Julissa and her peers to see themselves for the Goddesses that they are, the strong women that they will become, and the beauty in their culture and history.

At Hostal Boutique La Morena in Cancun, Mexico

Painted Septemeber 2019 in Wausau, Wi for the Art Lives Here mural festival. Winner of the People’s Choice Award.

This piece contemplates time and pays homage to the never-ending cycle of nature, the constant movement of colors and smells, air and water, and the magic that each of Wisconsin’s four seasons brings.

A little spell for the amazing Esperanza Spalding, one of the greatest bassists and jazz musicians alive today. This piece was exhibited at PS109 Artspace in August 2019 for the “Mujeres en el Poder” show.

Mixed media Acrylic and gold ink on canvas with peacock feather, copper butterflies, dried and pressed daisy, rose, and baby’s breath.

This piece is inspired by an amazing artist and sculptress @laetitiaky. Her art, all at once playful, intimate, and powerful, continues to inspire me and warm my heart. This image is based on her own self portrait photography and incorporates added elements of nature and femininity. Check out her work and follow her!

Exhibited at the Public Service Artist Guild group show, “Dress Rehearsal”
at the ESP Gallery in Chelsea, March 2019

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 36

A reflection on relationships, symbiotic and exploitive, between north and south, masculine and feminine, western and indigenous, consumerism and nature, eagle and condor, earth and sky, water and earth, the heart and the mind, parasite and host.

“Cuando el Águila del Norte

vuele con el Cóndor del Sur,

el espíritu de la tierra

volverá a despertar”

Profecía Inca

Exhibited at “Mujer: Inmigración y Progreso” at the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center on Sept. 5, 2018, and also at the ESP Gallery in Chelsea for the Public Service Artists Guild group show “Dress Rehearsal” on March 14, 2019.

Acrylic on canvas

20x24

Exhibited at the “Mujer: Inmigración y Progreso” show at the Julia de Burgos Cultural on Sept. 5, 2018

Mural for Winia Nunkar, Hotel Mi Tierra in Zamora, Ecuador

October 2018

My piece for the #lamarchademayo fundraiser at Culture Chaos on April 9, 2017.

This piece reflects on borders, the scars of history, and what they mean, who makes them, how they affect us all as human beings, particularly the men, women, and children that cross them "illegally", becoming invisible citizens, supporting an economy and contributing culturally and laborally to a country that doesn't recognize their existence except to criminalize them.

Acrylic on canvas

20 x 24

Commission of #pedroinfante for the #aguiladorada restaurant in Bayonne, NJ

8’ x 5’

Latex on drywall

Based on an image by Alessio Albi

Acrylic on paper

11 x 14

Painted in collaboration with Danielle Mastrion in Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador for Fiesta de Colores, 2017

Painted for the Young New Yorkers Silent Auction
The Resplendent quetzal, a sacred Central American bird known for its beautiful plumage, is a symbol of freedom due to it's inability to survive in captivity and will commit suicide or die of sadness upon being caged. 
Kalief Browder, a tragic example of our failed judicial system, was arrested at 16 for allegedly stealing a backpack, was charged as an adult and spent three years in Rikers Island awaiting trial. His case was eventually dismissed and he was released, but the mental and physical trauma that he endured while in prison, where he spent the majority of his time in solitary confinement, was irreparable and he committed suicide two years later at the age of 22. 
There is no justice in a system that is designed to capture and cage the innocent until they are proven guilty, and only the wealthy can afford to buy their freedom in the meantime. There is no security in a society where incarceration is valued over rehabilitation, where the systems that are put in place to protect us are the very systems that pursue, persecute, and punish without impunity. And there is no efficiency in a legal system that is so back logged with cases that an innocent young man can spend three of his most formative years in the mentally debilitating isolation of solitary confinement waiting for justice.
#justiceforkalief #kaliefbrowder#youngnewyorkers

“Pachamamandala” - Paracas Packpackers in Paracas, Peru - 2016

"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else" - Leonardo DaVinci

A study of death, grief, and mourning rituals. This painting is based on a cabinet card of a deceased little girl in Wisconsin, circa 1895, from "Beyond the Dark Veil", a collection of post-mortem and mourning photography from the Thanatos Archive.

Acrylic on paper

11 x 15

Warmi, warrior, wanderer, wise beyond her years <3 

Acrylic on paper

11 x 15

Audubon Mural Project, Harlem, NYC - 2016

A mural painted in collaboration with Layqa Nuna Yawar for Fiesta de Colores in Briceño, Ecuador. 2016

Painted for Fiesta de Colores in Briceño, Ecuador as part of the rebuilding effort after the 2016 earthquake.

The medusa: Don’t be fooled by her beauty… she’s lethal

Cancun, Mexico

2014

Painted for San Vicente Festival de Arte in San Vicente, Ecuador

Aerosol

March, 2016

Centre-fuge Public Art Project - New York, NY, 2015

My piece for the Fundraiser de Colores silent auction, titled " La Ofrenda", a love story and a cross hatching of some ideas that have been on my mind lately.

An offering of flowers, sometimes an apology, a prayer, or a show of love and adoration. The Andean Condor, one of the largest birds of flight in the world, a representation of feminine energy, and a symbol of indigenous peoples and their connection with the natural world. According to the ancient prophecy of the eagle and the condor, we have lost balance between people and nature, between men and women, between races and nations. We have forgotten our vows and have stopped honouring and respecting our sacred union. We have put dynamite in the mountains and oil in the water, we have raped and murdered women and taught our children to fight one another, and we have abandoned our countrymen when they need it most... It's time to come down off the back of the bull, unbind and fly together on the sane path once again. 

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24

A commentary on the history of the United States and what it was built on.

Latex on drywall

5' x 3’

The pink/purple elephant in the room… lets talk about it.

Painted for Welling Court Mural Project in Astoria, Queens. 2015

Aerosol