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Artist Profile: Marlen Lugo

Meet the Artist

Marlen Lugo headshot

I engage in Drawing and Painting daily. Like a surrealist I allow for my forms to manifest through my pen, scratching the surface to inhabit a space that is not fixed.

As dismembered pieces or exquisite corpses, I assemble them into paper and paint, pulling them together into one, making them whole. The results are amorphous, ever changing. The viewer can identify or not with an aspect of the self. One thing today, another tomorrow. Not limited to visual reverie, their context gives them life, sometimes meaning. Nature comes through and gets re-interpret. I am their tool of portrayal; And through a personal aesthetic they emerge.
The latest body of work is inspired by an imaginary place called The Republic of Wonder. Here, in Reverie my characters are portrayed in singular activities that could be human, however they not singular.
This characters have tools and aspirations that are interchangeable with other members of the Republic. They are shown at times surrounded by geometric patterns to give them dimension in a physical reality, as if physicality will contain their boundless nature.