Artist Bio

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.

Artist Statement

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.