Tag: personal narrative art

Apr 21

This Artist creates collages focused on women and human experience │Cristina Rodriguez

Cristina Rodriguez creates collages that transform torn paper fragments into powerful reflections on women’s identity and lived experience. Working entirely by hand, she cuts, tears, and layers found images to build compositions that feel both chaotic and deeply intentional. Her process mirrors the fragmentation of memory and the complexity of personal and collective narratives, where meaning emerges through juxtaposition and reconstruction. Influenced by literature, art, and lived experience, her work moves between vulnerability and resistance, inviting viewers to find themselves within the layers. Rather than presenting complete or resolved images, her…

Mar 31

This Artist Builds Abstract Faces From Layers of Pink, Purple, and Orange | Lisa Matway

Selected for our Faces exhibition, Lisa Matway creates bold abstract faces layered in vivid pinks, purples, and oranges that pulse with emotion. Her work is deeply rooted in her husband Jerry’s journey with Parkinson’s, exploring the gap between a face that appears still and the life that continues beneath it. Through exaggerated features, layered textures, and unapologetic color, she restores expression where the condition tries to take it away. Each piece begins with shared conversations, translating lived experience into visual form. What started as a personal outlet has grown into modart4pd,…