Artist Statement
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Growing up in Latin America, things like color, music, family and religion were deeply woven into her own "life weave”. She finds herself constantly drawing links between her photographs, found objects and words to the many layers of emotional and verbal communication in her life while mirroring an experiential connection with the lives of others. In her 2 and 3D Photographic Mixed Media Art, Gloria is most concerned with the concept (…the emotion, the statement, the theme) she is trying to convey. She takes her photographs and is most resourceful at finding objects or writing words in English and in Spanish that will best support her story. In many ways she is a “storyteller” letting her own deep emotions come through to the surface. Born and raised in Mexico City in a Cuban/Mexican family, she came to the United States to study Art & Design at the Art Center of College of Design (LA) and Parsons (NY). Then spent 25 years as a designer/creative director developing images for major brands. This experience has added methodology and diversity of thought to her mixed media work today. Her work is conceptual and has been shown at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (CT), the Silvermine Guild Arts Center(CT), Westport Arts Center (CT), Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CT), Simone’s Gallery (NY), Citibank (NY) among others. It is owned by private collectors in NY, CT, FL and Mexico. She has been published in the New York Times, the Stamford Advocate and many regional Publications. Last year she was a speaker in a panel at Southern Connecticut State University during the national conference on Women, War & Peace. She is currently doing research for a special project called “Life Weave”. She is interviewing other Latin American Women (in the tristate area) of all ages and social/economical status to eventually create a piece which represents how the fiber of their life has changed now living in the United States. Contemporary Women Artist Exhibition XIII, March 2005Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Juror: Judy Chicago “Leaving Our Mark” Solo Exhibition/Artist Gallery Talk, January 2005 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, Juror: Robbin Zella, Director of the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT “New Members Show”, January 2005 Silvermine Guild of Art, New Canaan, CT, Artist Gallery Talk “The Heart”, January 2005 (WCA Exhibition), City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT “Women Power and Politics” October
2004 (WCA Show) “Spectra ‘04” Nat. Photography Triennial November 2004 Silvermine Guild of Art, New Canaan, CT Curator: Barbara Hitchcock Celebrating Hispanic History Month “Spirituality
in Latin America”, The Small Space Gallery, Arts Council of Greater
New Haven “Mexico Today and Yesterday” September
2004 “Featured Artist of the Month” August-
September 2004 RiverWinds “Earth, Air, Water & Fire”, July-August, 2004 The Great Hall Gallery” Westport, CT, Curator: Gloria Santoyo Ruenitz “Known & Unknown” June, 2004 Betty
Barker Gallery, Waveny Park, New “6 x 6” June, 2004 (WCA exhibit) ArtSpace, New Haven, CT Women’s History Month March 2004 Benefit
for “Equality Now”, Locus “Winners Circle” March 2004 Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT, Curator: Debra Browne “24th Annual Photography Exhibition” February 2, 2004, The New Canaan Society for the Arts (Betty Barker Gallery) New Canaan, CT, Juror: Charles Hagen “Coming Together: Women Telling their Stories” January. 2004, Innovation Center, Bridgeport, CT, Curator:Robin Gilmore Jopp Women, War & Peace, Lyman Center for the Performing
Arts, Southern CT Ridgefield Guild juried Show, Oct. 2003 Ridgefield,
CT Award of Women's Work Exhibit (WCA-CT Exhibit), August 2003, The Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT Artist Gallery Talk ,8/31., Curator: Debra Browne and Jackie Flatow The Big Show, June 2003 Westport Arts Center,
Westport, CT "Objects & Images", May 2003 White Silo Farm, Sherman, CT (WCA Exhibit) "Found Object Art", April 2003 Guilford
HandCraft Center, Guilford, CT "The Common Thread", January 2003 Westport
Arts Center, Westport, CT "Glorious Gloria's", January 2003 Installation at YogaSpace, Brookfield, CT, Artist Gallery Talk. "Viewpoints", November 2002 Award Northern
Westchester Center of the "Hispanic Heritage Month", November
2002 Citibank/Greenburgh Branch, "Celebrating Latin Culture & Diversity",
October 2002 Simone's Gallery, "Prints from Within II", February 2002
Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Snapshot, January 2002 The Aldrich Museum of contemporary Art (organized by the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore), Associate curator: Jessica Hough Spectra ’01 Nat. Photography Biennial/Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Curator: Marianne Brunson Frisch. The New York Times, 10/29/01 "Photos and
More, at a Biennial Event" by The Ridgefield Press, 1/17/02 "Aldrich Shows open on Sunday, Snapshot". The Ridgefield Press, New Canaan Advertiser, The
Darien Times, The Good Living Minuteman Newspapers, 2/06/03 Must
see exhibit at Westport Housatonic Living, 2/21/03 "Glorious Gloria,
Transformation of two Ridgefield Press 6/26/03 Arts & Leisure, "And now a really Big Show" Ridgefield Press, Danbury Press 8/28/03 "Women's
Work" Stamford The News Times, Danbury, CT, 10/12/03 by Eileen
Fitzgerald “Women War The sign, Art Saves Lives, sits under a brick
fireplace in the Arts Fairfield County Weekly by Brita Brundage.
Westport Art Center’s Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, D.F. Graphic Design 1970 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA. BA/Graphic Design 1974 Parsons School of Design, NY, NY. Textiles, Papermaking
and Collage Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. Ceramics/Encaustic. 2000 International Center of Photography, NY, NY. Photography and digital Archival Printing. 2001 Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT Silk screening, paper making, 2000 President of the Women Caucus for Art –CT (2004-2006) Silvermine Guild of Artists Member Westport
Arts Center Member
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