Drenched in color, inspired by experience, shaped by emotion, my art has always been the language of my thoughts. Through my work I seek to bring awareness of the social and cultural clashes that are patent in our world today. The starting points are digital photographs that I have taken during my travels, images of people and places looking to capture instants of a changing world.
In these series I record what I saw when attending a gallery, fair and museums, many times wondering.......why are people really there.......... is it the fashionable thing to do? Are they really art lovers? Do they truly enjoy the experience? Do they really understand the meaning of it all? Are they going to buy? They move so fast that my head spins and my camera gets out of focus. I love it!
Anica is an associate artist at The Bakehouse Art Complex, located in Wynwood, Miami, FL. She was born in Lima, Peru, and came to the United States in 1970. Her training and experience includes photography, painting, printmaking, mixed media and steel sculpture. Anica began her art studies at the age of 12, studying painting under Madame Montero in Piura, Peru. After coming to the US, she studied design at LaSalle University in Chicago, graduating in 1975. Between 1979 and 1983, she trained in oil painting at the School of Art in Caracas, Venezuela. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she trained in printmaking, mixed media and steel sculpture at the Pratt Institute in New York City and at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT.