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
Education
2008 Parsons The New School for Design, MFA Graduate, New York, NY
1997 The Ontario College of Art and Design, BFA Graduate, Toronto, ON
Solo Exhibitions
2009 River’s Edge, D.U.M.B.O Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Undercurrents, XEXE Gallery,
My wire organic sculptures reference the human form and function as drawings as well. Wire magically becomes line in space, changing in character & becoming messages from within. The sculptures are delicate and have words embedding in their “skin”. These words give the viewer the sense of eavesd