I am a self-taught collage artist orginally from Buenos Aires, now based in Pennsylvania, working at the intersection of spiritual iconography and contemporary identity. Though I came to visual art later in life after a long legal career, my collage work has been featured in over a dozen juried exhibitions across the country, including the Susquehanna Art Museum, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Hudson Valley MOCA, and Brand Library. My work often explores gender, vulnerability, and inner transformation through a symbolic lens.
I’m a Hispanic American and retired attorney, now working full time as a writer and collage artist. I practiced corporate and nonprofit law for nearly forty years in New York City, Washington DC, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Born in Buenos Aires during a military dictatorship and raised in the United States, I have long experienced identity as layered and evolving. That theme runs through both my visual and written work.
I work in collage because it welcomes fragments and mystery. I cut, layer, and reassemble found imagery into compositions that flirt with beauty, but always with a layer of mystery. Figures may emerge, then blur. The images I use might suggest one meaning at first, but take on a different meaning when seen in context. I bring together old images, pieces of the human figure, and everyday ephemera to create scenes that feel familiar but subtly disoriented, inviting viewers to look again.
I’m less interested in fixed realism than in the way truth is often unstable, emotional, layered, and interrupted. Collage lets me inhabit that uncertain space. I build by instinct rather than formula, letting relationships between textures, lines, and gestures guide the image. The process is painterly, intuitive, and deeply personal.
While some of my collages echo classical art, I’m not quoting tradition. I’m rearranging and sometimes undoing it. Beauty, for me, is a form of quiet defiance, especially when it emerges from the unexpected.
What matters is that each piece feels alive, pleasing at first, yet awakening something deeper. I want the work to invite rather than confront—to suggest figuration without fully settling into it, always leaving room for ambiguity and reflection.
1983
Columbia Law School, New York, NY
J.D., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
1980
Columbia University, New York, NY
B.A., Latin American & English Literature, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
2025
Best in Show, Proud 2025, The Studio Door, San Diego, CA
2024
1st Runner Up, LGBTQ+ Art Showcase, Goggle Works Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Rising Star Award, Era Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2025
Make-it-Pop!, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Schlow Library, State College, PA (July 2025)
Proud 2025, The Studio Door Gallery, San Diego, CA (July 2025)
Portraits of Pride and Resistance, Philadelphia City Hall, PA (Jun–Aug 2025)
Unfiltered, Spiralis Gallery, Easton, MD (May–Jun 2025)
62nd Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA (Feb–May 2025)
So You Think You Are Too Old, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY (Feb–May 2025)
Human Rights Art Exhibition, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA (Jan–Mar 2025)
Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century, Royal Nebeker Art Gallery, Astoria, OR (Jan–Mar 2025)
2024
16th Annual Juried Show, Riverviews Artspace, Lynchburg, VA (Nov 2024–Jan 2025)
Small Works Exhibition, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY (Nov–Dec 2024)
Domestic Affairs, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (Oct 2024–Jan 2025)
Queering Democracy, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester NY (Oct–Nov 2024)
Not! An Art Fair, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA (Jul–Aug 2024)
Morning, Noon, Night, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro MA (Jun–Jul 2024)
LGBTQ+ Art Showcase, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading, PA (May–Jun 2024
Works on Paper, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA (Jun–Aug 2024)
Rising Star Exhibition, Era Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Apr 2024)
2023
Woman Phenomenally, Spiralis Gallery, Easton, MD (Nov 2023–Jan 2024)
