#Latina:ReclaimingTheLatinaTag

As an interdisciplinary artist I use a specific medium for a different body of work in order to tap in art historical context. In my series entitled #Latina: Reclaiming the Latina tag, I reduce the painted portrait to the immediacy of the 2015 social trend the: Selfie. By re-presenting the quickly created, ever changing, and widely circulated selfie with a more traditional, time sensitive painting approach and hanging it on an art gallery wall, I want viewers to also slow down and more deeply engage the politics of identity negotiated in a portrait, from ethnic identity to social activism.