Melissa
Ríos
Melissa Ríos
July - Oct 2024
/ Past resident
Melissa Ríos is an artist born in Costa Rica and based in Mexico City, working primarily with painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation. Ríos paints surreal, dream-like visions. Figures, objects, and abstract forms overlap and aggregate like veils mediating between realms of experience. Full of emotional charge and presence, the paintings imagine the spaces between the physical and metaphysical, between imagination and experience.
"Participating in this residency is a great opportunity to explore new themes and forms in my painting. From the light bouncing off the corner of a window to the play of shadows from buildings viewed from a distance, these will be just some of the visual experiences I will surely encounter, and they will undoubtedly be reflected in the frozen fragments of oil in the works I create during this time."
Melissa Ríos
Melissa Ríos
Melissa Ríos
July - Oct 2024
/ Past resident
Melissa Ríos is an artist born in Costa Rica and based in Mexico City, working primarily with painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation. Ríos paints surreal, dream-like visions. Figures, objects, and abstract forms overlap and aggregate like veils mediating between realms of experience. Full of emotional charge and presence, the paintings imagine the spaces between the physical and metaphysical, between imagination and experience.
"Participating in this residency is a great opportunity to explore new themes and forms in my painting. From the light bouncing off the corner of a window to the play of shadows from buildings viewed from a distance, these will be just some of the visual experiences I will surely encounter, and they will undoubtedly be reflected in the frozen fragments of oil in the works I create during this time."
Melissa Ríos
Melissa
Ríos
Melissa Ríos
July - Oct 2024
/ Past resident
Melissa Ríos is an artist born in Costa Rica and based in Mexico City, working primarily with painting and drawing. Mining the fertile ground between figuration and abstraction, Ríos draws on feminist, literary, and surrealist understandings of reality and its representation. Ríos paints surreal, dream-like visions. Figures, objects, and abstract forms overlap and aggregate like veils mediating between realms of experience. Full of emotional charge and presence, the paintings imagine the spaces between the physical and metaphysical, between imagination and experience.
"Participating in this residency is a great opportunity to explore new themes and forms in my painting. From the light bouncing off the corner of a window to the play of shadows from buildings viewed from a distance, these will be just some of the visual experiences I will surely encounter, and they will undoubtedly be reflected in the frozen fragments of oil in the works I create during this time."