About Me
Delzy Alarcon is an artist located in Baltimore, MD. For two years, she was a fine arts student at MC located in Rockville. During her time there, her work has been recognized on the cover of the school's magazine, the MC Art Beat. Besides studying, she is was also a member of the Student Art League at her school while interning at VisArts. Her work has been exhibited in NY as a Finalist in the AXA Art Prize of 2022. Currently, she is an General Fine Arts major, minoring in Painting and Illustration, seeking a degree at MICA. Her goal is to pursue a career in storyboarding, illustration, and fine arts.
Artist Statement:
My narrative based paintings are influenced by the personal teaching of my parents, who migrated to the US as undocumented children in the 80’s to flee from the Civil War in El Salvador. In respect of their impact on my pieces, my family names my paintings. Their teachings have led me to explore themes of curses and wounds. My work explores the impacts that intergenerational trauma has on families as it relates to the aftermath of war, including topics (and their relationship to one another) like capitalism, religion, family, and death. I address mental illness through the use of distorted figures that represent how conditions such as memory loss, schizophrenia, and paranoia can distort memories and experiences.
In my artistic decisions, I am determined to use saturated colors, contorted figures, and painted collaged memories as a form of expression. In pursuit of noise control, I view the loud hues, and me painting over them, as me physically having to hush and cover the subjects of the pieces. How clear but distracting the colors are are what I seek to investigate. My materials include found objects such as raw canvas, glass, wooden shipping crates, coffee bags, and fabric. Due to the little history and sympathy that is available to the general public about the Civil War in El Salvador, I experiment with what it means to tell the untold stories of my family who witnessed, first hand, the atrocities of the past and present reality. For the migrant worker, the circumstances of a plantation worker in El Salvador are similar to that of an exploited worker in the U.S as a result of capitalism. I am hoping that through my work, people with the same experiences will understand.
In my artistic decisions, I am determined to use saturated colors, contorted figures, and painted collaged memories as a form of expression. In pursuit of noise control, I view the loud hues, and me painting over them, as me physically having to hush and cover the subjects of the pieces. How clear but distracting the colors are are what I seek to investigate. My materials include found objects such as raw canvas, glass, wooden shipping crates, coffee bags, and fabric. Due to the little history and sympathy that is available to the general public about the Civil War in El Salvador, I experiment with what it means to tell the untold stories of my family who witnessed, first hand, the atrocities of the past and present reality. For the migrant worker, the circumstances of a plantation worker in El Salvador are similar to that of an exploited worker in the U.S as a result of capitalism. I am hoping that through my work, people with the same experiences will understand.
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