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Artist Bio
I was born in a small town in southern Brazil, General Camara. Don't
bother to look for it on a map. It is not there. But you can find
Porto Alegre, which is only about an hour away. I immigrated to the
United States as a child with my family. We lived in Los Angeles the
first three years, then moved to the Dallas area. I've lived in Plano,
Texas, most of my life, graduating from Plano Senior High School in 1981,
but have also lived in Chicago, Illinois, and Bangkok, Thailand.
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I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago, where I
majored in fine art and minored in fiction writing.
I later took some
graduate art history courses at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
My work is greatly influenced by my Latin heritage and my studies of art
and fiction. My paintings are representations of things I can not express
in words, but want so deeply to share. The images come from my mind and
my soul. My Polaroid transfers are still developing in style, but I'm
greatly attracted to images that reach out beyond the constraints of time
and reality. I work from slide images and use a Vivitar Instant Slide
Printer to transfer the pictures to Polaroid film and from this to heavy
weight watercolor paper. I then use color pencils, watercolor, pastels
and acrylics to bring the desired look to the image.
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