About the beginnings there really isn’t much to say. I was born in a small town in Argentina in 1978. I was a pretty plain kid.  Besides the popularity of being the sissy of the block my childhood was mostly irrelevant to my work.Right after I finished high-school I moved to Buenos Aires where I studied design for a couple years... I guess it was too much for me so I quit and transferred to Art. Sick of studying and working full time I jumped on a plane as soon as I had a chance and I landed in Chicago in December 2000.

Here, with the inability to communicate in English and feeling very lonely I started working on my art: First I worked on a series of self-portraits without mirrors. I use acrylics and I tried to paint myself as I remembered me. The result was a bunch of awful paintings I shamelessly showed to everybody I met at that time proclaiming myself an Argentinean Artist. These are not in this web site and will never be. At that time I also worked with my camera. I spent all the money I made selling Big Macs blowing up bad photographs. I thought, “if they’re big they’d look better”. I was wrong, but there is something in theses pieces that I still enjoy, so I will share them with you.

One day I decided to submit some of my first paintings to a juried exhibition up in Evanston of course I didn’t get in, but when I went to see the show I realized how terribly ugly my work was. I thought I was a good time to take a break. Completely lost and trying to adapt to the new system, two years went by. During winter 2003 I became close with two amazing artists (Victoria Loeb and Chris Zillis) and I rediscovered the need to create Art.

I accepted I didn’t know how to paint so I started drawing and I came up with the first project I actually liked. This is a group of nine color pencil drawings of hands that I wisely called Hands. It was a great introduction to painting for I found and understand again such things as structure, texture, etc. I was so happy with them that I ran to the art store and spent my whole paycheck buying oils and brushes. My boyfriend at the time gave an easel as a Christmas present and I started painting again. This time my friend Chris volunteered as my art teacher and convinced me to do things right, at least in the beginning. He gave me an overdose of books about the old masters of classical painting and I did what I could to get close to that. My first project using oils was called “social paintings” and are images of friends and family. When I felt confident enough I started my first serious project “Dark Queens.” I had the opportunity to show them in a solo show at the Gerber Hart Library last January and at landmark arts gallery in November 2004, as well as some other small shows that I participated in that year.

Dark queens opened up an immense field for my art to work in. I am currently working on “Perla,” an ongoing project where I use my own image to show different aspects of transvestitism. So far I have finished 9 of them. I still have 40 more to work on.

After my visit to Newman at estudiotres gallery my work has taken a little turn with the Simon series. My most recent work, which has already earned me a solo show at estudiotres gallery on August 2006. In January 2007 two great things happened, first the “cock series” and later my return to school.

Early last year I joined the DePaul Community. School has opened my mind in fascinating ways, constantly stimulating my intellect, allowing me to generate ideas daily and providing me with new mediums to express them.

This year I have become fascinated with digital media. Tools like Strata allow me to exploit my capability to see an object and interpret it from the most basic shapes that conform it, a lesson well taught by drawing lessons. I build it conscious of the three dimensionality it possesses applying my knowledge of sculpture and when it comes the time to texture it, the understanding of color and temperature provided by painting techniques bring the object to life. I have the talent, the commitment, and the ability t think critically needed to succeed in the art world. I will become a major voice in the art world. Just watch me.