A Curator’s Perspective: Innovative Approaches

Originally founded in 2006 by Dominican artist Pepe Coronado, Coronado printstudio was established in various locations, such as Washington D.C. and El Barrio, New York before relocating to Austin in 2019. Rooted in the philosophy that printing is a collaborative medium, we believe that voices and stories are most powerful when seen and heard collectively. Our studio functions as an open and inclusive space for these discussions and innovative collaborations to manifest. Visitors can explore our vast collection of works by Latino, Chicano, Afro-Latino, Caribbean and Diaspora communities.

My work explores the nuanced landscape of cultural identity as a woman of Zapotec descent. Through layered, figurative oil paintings, I navigate the space between heritage and contemporary existence. My process translates personal and collective memory into a visual language of resilience, reclaiming narrative authority and celebrating the complexity of belonging.

I am a mixed media artist. My work is best described as a colorful exploration of the absurdities of life and self. With both sculpture and painting I enjoy an exploration into the mental states of the individual.

I am rarely depicting a specific person in my work and text is purposely juxtaposed, but often out of context. Recombined and interpreted by the viewer, these devices reveal open-ended themes of ignorance, contradiction and cynicism. I am a contemporary artist observing our ridiculous, willful ignorance while I eat and drink and draw funny pictures on the table cloth.

I am a painter and most of my work is oil on canvas or panel. I have a series of landscapes and of vacuum tubes. I use gestural broad marks and spend a lot of time mixing a limited range of colors. This year, I have some small watercolors as well. I make my frames at the Splinter Group, as my studio is surrounded by woodshops.

My work is a tactile meditation on transformation—where surfaces fracture and forms emerge from tension. I sculpt with entropy as collaborator, allowing decay and growth to shape each piece’s final gesture. Whether in clay, pigment or wood, I explore the porous boundaries between spatial planes and the quiet drama of collapse. Each object invites the viewer to linger at the edge of order, where perception stretches and opens toward a more expansive experience.

In an age defined by rapid consumption, my work investigates the relationship between materiality and perception, urging a slower, embodied engagement with objects and space. Magical thinking, rooted in cultural superstitions and beliefs in unseen forces, plays a vital role in my practice. By infusing my work with these notions, I tap into a collective cultural memory, where objects are not only functional but also symbolic.

My work is anchored in symmetry. My paintings are meditative, dreamlike and often kaleidoscopic.

I’ve always been a painter. I paint what I feel and I want to see. I draw inspiration from nature and the primary elements of the universe as a way of exploring how art can help one process and move through life.