Laurie De Jesús Lagares

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I work in figurative painting. My creative process is nourished by a personal archive of images capturing everyday moments of intimacy: screenshots from my phone, photos of mangroves in Switzerland, and pictures of family members at rest. I bring these images into my paintings because I want to keep the lived moment of intimacy present while also exploring the context in which this intimacy arises. These contexts can exist in the digital space or the physical world, which creates variation in the visual language of my paintings, as the contexts of intimacy are multiple.

Laurie De Jesús Lagares is a visual artist and adjunct professor at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where she studied at the Public School of Fine Arts of Ponce. She holds a Master of Arts from the Institut Kunst Gender Natur (IAGN) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where she obtained a Bachelor of Humanities with a concentration in Visual Arts. In 2017, she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts Alonso Cano of the University of Granada in Spain.