Thematic Arc Artist Talk

Join the highly talented Michelle Peraza as she discusses her journey as an artist and educator. This artist talk will explore how artists find their thematic arc’s. Rooted in autobiography and family stories, brown affect and performativity, agnotology (the study of cultural ignorance) and semiotics, Mesoamerican cosmovision and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, plant medicine and prayer, ancestral memory and dreamworlds, and Empire and periphery zones, Michelle’s practice explores an ambiguous ontology; a way of being in an in-between state. Often working in doubling and diptychs by way of portraiture and images of flora, fauna, geologic and geometric forms, dualism is central to her practice as inamic and relational forms. Through research, process, ritual, dreams and trance meditation, she explores material practice grounded in Brujería (witchcraft) and devotional aesthetics, intending to use creativity as a method to (re)world-build and maintain personal wholeness despite huecos (holes), golpes (blows) and tristeza (sadness). Her practice is cross disciplinary, working across painting, drawing, textile, gilding, natural dyeing, pigment making, site-specific installation and self limpias (cleansings), taking inspiration from Mesoamerican metaphysics and her education in Classical Studies to create new mythos that invokes interconnectedness with the cosmos, devotion and reverence to existence, self-healing and transformation.
Thursday, November 12th 1pm-1:45pm.
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