Beatriz Whitehill

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I am a Puerto Rican-American multidisciplinary artist who makes art for diasporic communities. My work speaks to the resilience and beauty of our multilayered heritage through paintings, installations and animations that reside within the visual language of magical realism and mirror a unique cultural experience. My figurative work is decorated with hidden imagery that encourages the viewer to take a longer look. Puerto Rican symbolism like vejigante, masked monsters, help me understand the tensions around dual-identities. My artwork reflects this dialogue, expanding upon the ideas of decolonization, legacy, and the redefinition of diasporic identities to combat cultural erasure.

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Beatriz Whitehill is a Puerto Rican-American multidisciplinary artist. She studied painting with a focus on Latin American art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work addresses diasporic communities through a visual representation of the resilience and endurance of culture. Her paintings are full of hidden imagery, worlds within everyday objects. The vibrancy of the paint colors she uses are taken from lush Caribbean landscapes. Her practice also includes elements of design, three dimensional sculpture, and stop motion animation created from her paintings and illustrations. Her work witnesses the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of culture.