Artist Statement
CVWhen I was six years old and first stepped into a classical art atelier in my hometown in Argentina, I knew I had found my world. The same visceral feeling of color and possibility and the unmistakable scent of oil paint still greet me each day in my Santa Monica studio, decades later. The urgency to create has never left me.
My artistic practice has evolved into a multidisciplinary dialogue between painting, hand-built ceramics, and printmaking with each medium guided by the same pursuit: capturing fleeting moments in time. A figure caught in an unguarded gesture. An emotion passing through a body before it disappears. The subtle movement of hands shaping clay in a way that can never be repeated. I often begin without a fixed plan; instead, I follow the work, trusting intuition and allowing meaning to emerge through the act of making.
My visual language was formed between two worlds. The lush countryside and beach summers of my childhood in Argentina instilled a lifelong love of nature, water, and unhurried connection. Los Angeles introduced me to the radiant light of the Pacific coast and the beauty of its rich cultural landscape, transforming my palette, expanding my relationship to color, and uncovering the connections we share as humans. My career as a clinical geneticist has taught me to look closely at people and the details, and art has been the way I move beyond precision and into ambiguity, intuition, and feeling – the emotions hidden beneath the surface. Having lived between two cultures and two professions, I have come to embrace that in-between space, which continually draws me toward people as both subject and muse.
The figure remains at the center of everything I create. Through abstraction, I seek to give form to what is transient, felt, and deeply human. Facial features are often softened or omitted, allowing the figure to move beyond individual identity. What interests me is not creating likeness, but presence—the quiet moments of vulnerability, connection, and shared experience that reveal something universal. Even my hand-built vessels are figures to me: presences shaped by touch, time, and memory. Whether through clay, printmaking, or paint, I am drawn to the same instinctive process of discovery.
While the figure remains central to my work, water has become an increasingly important companion. Rooted in memories of Argentina’s beaches and the ocean landscape surrounding my home and studio in Los Angeles, water represents connection itself—an expansive, fluid force linking places, memories, and people across distances. The oceans feel like shared narratives, connecting me to my birthplace while reminding me of the invisible threads that bind us all.
In the past year, this connection to water and the natural world has deepened. In the wake of the Palisades fire, I found unexpected refuge and inspiration in my new home near the Venice Canals. Long walks along the canals and the shoreline became a daily ritual, offering calm and continuity during a period of uncertainty. The movement of water, the rhythms of nature, and the serenity of those landscapes found their way into my newer work, deepening an ongoing exploration of memory, resilience, belonging, and renewal.
I paint, sculpt, and print to honor human connection and the fleeting moments that bind us all—across cultures, lands, and histories. It is my hope that everyone can recognize a little something of themselves in my work.