Marisol Ruiz

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My paintings are collages of inherited and imagined memories, framed like a photograph, by symbols of post-colonial history. Through painting, I explore the diasporic experience of the in-between and the intimate meditation of memory. I create paintings that spring from my Puerto Rican heritage and subconscious. The imagery travels through different dimensions of the ethereal and the intangible experience of life. My research on Transcendentalism has expanded my journey of spiritual excavation through painting. These scenes are a collage of my personal memories blended with depictions from my imagination. The poetic visuals are meditations on the complex and healing nature of memory.

Marisol Ruiz is a painter who takes inspiration from being raised in Puerto Rico. Ruiz works with oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and panel. Her paintings are collages of inherited and imagined memories, framed like a photograph, by symbols of post-colonial history. Through painting, Ruiz explores the diasporic experience of the in-between and the intimate meditation of memory.

Based in Brooklyn, New York Ruiz earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Humanistic Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. She has exhibited at Selenas Mountain, Beverly’s NYC, Paradice Palase, Grimaldis Gallery, and Current Space. Ruiz was recently featured in New American Paintings, Issue 160.