Verónica Peña
Artist Statement
The Presence of the Absent
The separation from my culture and my family has led me to continuously reflect about who I want to experience my time of life with. These reflections have evolved into the understanding of the physical absence of my loved ones as the
Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni
Born and raised in rural western Connecticut, Samantha Levin grew up exposed to nature along side of the uber~urban New York City, barely a two~hour drive south. She became interested in the arts at an early age, taking up with both music and visual arts, influenced by the artistic bents of her famil