Belinda Flores-Shinshillas is a visual artist born in Mexico City and a resident of New Orleans. She received a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Printmaking and Painting from Southeastern Louisiana University and a Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from Louisiana State University. In her native country she studied at the atelier of muralist professor Manuel Guillen y Campos Huici in the disciplines of human figure drawing and oil/acrylic techniques of the Mexican School of Painting.
Her artwork has been of a contemporary nature using the figure and representational elements as an important component in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through space. All the elements become a metaphoric voice, capturing the balance between intimacy and distance. Her drawings, prints, and paintings are an extension of her identity and culture, using form and color as an idea, an attitude, and interpretation that questions the permanence of the world surrounding her.
She is interested in the intricate connection between the past, present, and future and how they transform our lives. She has started working on a project about her deep connections with her native land and the importance her culture and traditions have in her personal and artistic journey.
Belinda has exhibited her work in Mexico City; El Paso, Texas; Santa Fe, Taos and Las Cruces in New Mexico; New Haven in Connecticut; North and South Carolina; Pomona in California; Hammond, Covington and New Orleans in Louisiana.
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