Little Village Branch hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month art exhibit featuring the work of local artist Christina Fuentes.
Pieces from Fuentes’s collection will be on display from September 15 through October 15.
Artist Statement
My works tend to focus on the female entity, vibrant colors, layers of colors, shapes, patterns and cityscapes incorporated with nature such as trees, the moon, the sun, organic shapes. None of it is intentional in the beginning process/stages of creation. It all develops and evolves over time. I usually don’t plan things in advance, I just let them happen. The right moment arrives when I feel the energy, accumulated from a precise time and place. Hopefully my artworks speak for themselves and are interpreted differently each time by each different individual.
I don’t always set out to produce art about just one subject or another. I’m usually never without a sketchbook, so I am constantly drawing and most times the drawings develop into more in-depth ideas and digital imagery. To say every piece of mine is predetermined in concept and content would not be an accurate statement. My form of drawing and creating my artwork is simply making a gesture and a mark in the emptiness. I will begin on a blank medium, or digital art board and just begin with lines, shapes, splashes of color… visual symbols serve as whimsical fragments, provoking contemplation without answers. Great images have the power to inspire consciously and subconsciously, creating a dialogue and cycle of inspiration between artist and viewer.
My influences are first and foremost everything I see, feel and experience, but I’ve always loved street art and graffiti. It reminds me that I as an artist, a human being, need to forget the logic and compartmentalizing of our daily lives, and indulge in a world without boundaries or structure.
