Artist: Belinda Flores-Shinshillas | Location: Mandeville, LA
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Artist: Belinda Flores-Shinshillas | Location: Mandeville, LA
Mandeville, LA
Being born in a city as eclectic as Mexico City and later moving to New Orleans has greatly influenced and been expressed in Belinda Flores-Shinshillas’ art. Her work has been of a contemporary nature using the figure as the important element in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through a space. All the elements become a metaphoric voice, capturing the human nature that is reflected while balancing between intimacy and distance.
Presently, Flores-Shinshillas is developing two projects using portraiture. “We’re all Alike” consists of a series of portraits intended to create a large-scale installation, and "Decoding the Purity of an Icon” is a series of acrylic/oil female portrait paintings on canvas.
She attempts to search for an intimate connection with the human soul. Let the most basic feelings emerge from the eyes of the people that surrounds her, which she knows and sometimes just met. Portraiture allows her to explore emotions, experiences, memories and expectations, the ethereal nature of the human soul in the sublime unknown.
Her drawings and paintings are an extension of her identity, culture and the community she lives in, using form and color as an idea, an attitude and an interpretation that questions the permanence of the world surrounding her.
She seeks a spiritual transformation through the use of different mediums, for a visual experience.