Cecilia Orozco is a Nicaraguan – Costa Rican artist and educator currently based in Boston. Her art practice concentrates on drawings to express stories inspired by her Latine identity and personal narratives. She enjoys creating artworks that showcase Latin culture in the bright and positive light that she knows, but she also creates artworks that deal with more difficult aspects of the same. Leading her to explore the connecting points of myths and legends, reality, and social justice. Her stories have developed and been inspired by popular myths and legends of Latin America to speak on issues about injustice and oppression to portray and empower the people it depicts, as well as offer a new view towards the future. For the viewer to find a story through small details and a close look at her drawings is something that she strives for.
Artist Statement
I grew up in the country of lakes and volcanoes, on the sound of the marimba and the crow of a rooster in a neighbor’s backyard, with the flowing skirts of a huipil and the drumming of the rain only found in the tropics. Through my drawings I embrace the unique and ornate culture I grew up with. I invite the viewer to find a story among the plants and people, amongst each brushstroke and line, perhaps it is a myth of a weeping woman who weeps at the outcry of an injustice or a satire through an anthropomorphized figure. Do you see this story?
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