Leticia Ernestina Gomez: Prismatic

Leticia Ernestina Gomez is a multimedia artist and researcher whose work explores the relationship between western psychology indigeneity intimacy and cultural belonging. They are a queer indigenous creator whose inspirations and techniques range across the disciplines of drawing painting collage and installation art. 

Perhaps due to her research into the evolution of human consciousness elements of dreaming fantasy and perception inflect their work. Gomez’s practice is complex and vibrant; her artwork often has a dimension of social awareness underlying it bringing into focus issues of identity the sacred and self-compassion. She often uses strict dualities to organize her compositions - inside and outside darkness and lightness grief and joy. Yet their work always carries an emotional truth that is revealing engrossing and healing. 

Gomez has received an Associate degree in Art from Del Mar College a Bachelor of Fine Art in Drawing & Painting from University of North Texas and a Masters Degree in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from John F. Kennedy University. Their artwork has been shown in exhibitions at various galleries cultural venues and academic institutions.

Artist Statement:

In this exhibition with its barbarous beauty and neon abstractions Gomez addresses the spectrum of identity through personal writing textured imagery and synchronistic methods of execution.

Her intuitive nature is a guide through the creative process. As a painting progresses forms signs and gestures begin to appear from within. The impulsive markings may last a dozen layers or disappear through the next while others survive to become part of the paintings’ evolving surface. It is through this reduction and addition that Gomez creates an unpredictable yet prolific collection of prismatically colorful artworks. 

Gomez uses a variety of mediums as integrating agents building on the unity of instinct and presence to develop a body of work that is representative of a flow state. In their larger paintings emotive energy is transmuted into movement through choppy brushstrokes and fluorescent hues. Whereas in smaller works there is a focus on rhythmic linework and carved primal markings among twisted curves and repetitive tail ends. Each an ouroboros disguised as a labyrinth. 

Whether it’s through the use of text simulated braille or object familiarity Gomez seeks to connect viewers to the primary experience of Self of familiarity and to a sense of belonging. As we explore deeper into this alternate yet loving world we inch towards a deeper understanding of the universal threads that bind us. 

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