Welcome / Bienvenidos

I'm Alejandra. I love painting and that is why I decided to create this website to make my art public and accessible to everyone. I graduated from CSU Monterey Bay earning a B.A. in the Integrated Studies Special Program. My focus was Visual Arts and History of the Americas. I have also applied to the Counselor Education program at San Jose State, and hopefully I'll get in.

The main objective of this web space is to display my art works, (paintings) and some of the pieces that are still in progress. I'm also a mother of a beautiful 3 year old daughter who has become my greatest inspiration and my model as well.

I am very interested in Chicana Art, and that is why I chose that to be my webstie title, because I am Chicana and I'm also an artist that wants to create beautiful art for a social/environmental purpose of educating, raising awareness and creating change, not just to decorate. I am also very proud of my Purepecha heritage. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like it.

Enjoy!

email me at: lafrida.@. yahoo.com

Catholic Ceremonies in the lives of Latinas, 2004 (capstone project)

Exhibited at the CSU Monterey Bay Library on 7/02/04

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Nueva Pintura 03-20-008

I did this painting thinking of a surreal paisaje (landscape) and then I thought about painting a mother and a daughter embracing. This is a new style of my painting, more surreal and dream like. I tend to have very vivid, colorful, and the weirdest dreams. I love to sleep because I love to dream...although sometimes my dreams can be very real and scary, but I like writing about them to document them and if possible sketch or paint about them.

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

CoRaZoN RoTo! Mi Nueva pintura acrylica

Hice esta pintura pensando y sientiendo todos estas emociones que he experimentado recientemente. La vida es muy complicada...solo tengo 24 anos y creo que mi corazon a sentido tantas desiluciones, injusticias y resentimientos, pero se que no soy la unica, todo mundo se ha de sentir asi en algun momento. Esta pintura muestra un corazon sangrando y roto porque asi me he sentido por algun tiempo ya....tengo la esperanza de curar mi corazon y recuperarme como lo he hecho antes y como lo hacen tantas personas todos los dias en este mundo en el que vivimos. espero y se de su agrado!

Alejandra
Hija del Sol

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