Corina del Carmel’s shamanistic paintings are virtuos celebrations of multielevered unity of opposites. In them, a realism of the imagination confronts us with a stagging synthesis of Mexican and United States avant-gardes.
She deftly kicks the door of perception ajar, and glimpses of subtle truth with a flicking tongue of a rattlesnake transfix our attention.
JOHNNY DOLPHIN
Poet, explorer, author, play writer & scientist, inventor of Biosphere 2
BIO
Corina was born in Monterrey, an industrial city in Northern Mexico. She grew up with a family where curiosity and imagination were supported and encourage and at very early age, drawing became a way to create worlds of her imagination. As a child she went to different school and many different cities, which ingrained in her the desire to move and travel.
At the age of twelve, Corina started oil painting and later she studied Visual Arts at the University of Nuevo Leon.
After graduating and becoming a member of the Faculty of Visual Arts with a BA in Graphic Arts, she traveled throughout Mexico. she lived and painted among the Tarahumara Indian in the Copper Canyon, Huichol indian, the Mixtecs in Oaxaca and the Mayan of Yucatan and Chiapas. Corina’s work is very prolific. Her artwork goes from paintings that evokes he Mexican birthplace offering a perspective of her homeland with a sociopolitical consciousness gleaned after emigrated to California. And to creations of inner and mystical journeys that have been influenced by living close to nature in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, where she keeps her permanent studio. she is an avid gardener and traveler. Corina has exhibited in United States, Mexico and Europe. From 2000 to 2006, she lived in Berlin, where she painted and broaden her talents producing a comprehensive body of work that include different artistic printing techniques.
Corina’s art and travels has been interwoven to produce a multi-cultural perspective. Her awards and exhibits have aroused interest in the art community, her work is now part of many private collections around the world.
Corina’s has always spoken to the “now’….always there has been a message behind the beauty…behind the illusive reality of her art…behind the very brush strokes. Corina’s art is for everybody because speaks of everyone…look deeply…you will see more than you see.
STATEMENT
Art is an expression of the human spirit…
It is a mutual and individual language that evokes in the recipient first a reaction in the senses; and then, the art is reflected in the intellect.
For me a painting is a blend of a concept and aesthetic proposal….a tangible experience. A painting is a three dimensional game in a two dimensional space.
The human figure has always been the main element in the compositions of my work and as an endless source of inspiration. The human being not only as a physical form but as multidimensional being. With my art I want to express the links that make us universally connected despise our cultural differences.
CORINA DEL CARMEL