Isabel Gutierrez

I\'m an artist and have always been an artist, growing up with my father, part of the Chicano mural movement in L.A. during the 1980\'s. He never taught me how to paint (self-taught that he was) but always was my coach in art (think tough love boxing coach). I went off to school to study art and was almost spiritually transformed by the tough love and inspiration from my professors and peers. My love and conviction for muralism and public art evolved with this new experience of the intense collaborations I had there. Now I just strive to create work that can reach people in the way public art is made to, whether paining, photography, or installation, even though, truth be told, it mostly collects dust in storage. We\'ve all been there I\'m sure. My work is to tell stories, and like writers I can create a narrative merely with line, its rhythms, and changes over visual space, symbolizing time. That is story telling in its essential form. I work on different ideas and abstractions of language, to see how the meaning can be retained without direct translations. Thank you for reading this whole thing.