DSXSO Artists
2018
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BELINDA FLORES-SHINSHILLAS
Being born in a city as eclectic as Mexico City and later moving to New Orleans has greatly influenced and expressed in my Art. My work has been of a contemporary nature using the figure as the important element in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through a space. All the elements become a metaphoric voice, capturing the human nature that is reflected while balancing between intimacy and distance. Presently, I am developing two projects using portraiture. We’re all Alike consists of a series of portraits intended to create a large-scale installation, and Decoding the Purity of an Icon is a series of acrylic/oil female portrait paintings on canvas. I attempt to search for an intimate connection with the human soul. Let the most basic feelings emerge from the eyes of the people that surrounds me, which I know and sometimes just meet. Portraiture allows me to explore emotions, experiences, memories and expectations, the ethereal nature of the human soul in the sublime unknown. My drawings and paintings are an extension of my identity, culture and the community I live in, using form and color as an idea, an attitude and an interpretation that questions the permanence of the world surrounding me. I seek a spiritual transformation through the use of different mediums, for a visual experience. This approach conveys a wide range of sensations and emotions that transport the observer from total excitement to an apparent serenity. |
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ROLANDO PALACIO was born in 1983 of Mexican immigrant parents. As a child his introduction to the arts begin through a summer youth program for migrant farm labor youth with the goal of attracting them to education rather than agricultural labor. In 2010, Palacio received his BFA from Michigan State University. Subsequent to that he attended the Art and Design Masters program at the University of Michigan where he received his MFA. He presently resides in the New Orleans area where he continues to photograph.
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CYNTHIA RAMIREZ is a multi-media artist who has exhibited her work in numerous local, national and international exhibitions. She received a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (1986) and a M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Orleans (1990). She is a Professor of Fine Art at Southern University at New Orleans and teaches visual art at NORDC. She has taught eight years in the Talented in the Visual Arts Program for the Orleans Parish Public Schools. She was Program Coordinator for the Art’s Council of New Orleans’ Urban Arts Training Program, a summer job program for youths creating public art in the New Orleans community. She was awarded an Adolph Gottlieb Emergency Assistance Grant and Joan Mitchell Assistance Grant 2006. She has created a Day of the Dead Altar at the Louisiana State Museum: Cabildo, the U.S Mint, The Ogden Museum of art (2012 -16) and the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, LA in 2006-17. Her altar will be featured in the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2018 for the New Orleans Tri-centennial exhibition. She has served as a panelist for the Visual Artist Fellowship for the Louisiana Endowment for the arts and the National Endowment of the Arts Visual Art Grant panel for art education. She is a founding member of the Second Story Gallery Artist’s Co-op at the New Orleans Healing Center.
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