North Star Collage 3 Online Exhibition

Minneapolis, MN

Carmen Gutierrez-Bolger

Looking Out

Oil, charcoal, gesso and photocopies on panel
40 x 26 in.
2010

I am a spanglish artist. My work draws on my experiences growing up in southern Florida as a Cuban refugee. Through a range of mediums, I merge my personal history with Cuban iconography to fashion narratives that interpret the spiritual, mythical, and cultural dimensions of my two identities. I look to portray a sense of displacement and the disorientation, the ubiquitous condition of being from somewhere else, the immigrant experience.