Silicone Art

I was born and raised in Miami, Florida and started my studies of the arts in 4th grade when i was encouraged to apply for a Visual Arts Magnet Program at South Miami Elementary School. I continued my studies onto more art magnet programs such as South Miami Middle School, Design and Architecture High school and graduated from New world School of the Arts in 2004. I then was awarded a scholarship to Kansas City Art Institute and joined the sculpture department which gave me the platform and freedom to explore different materials. It wasn\'t until 2007 that i had discovered a new passion for a certain material called silicone and fell instantly in love with it. I was intrigued by its slick texture and the organic strings of rubber formed when squeezed out from the tubes. Naturally i combined my passion for painting with my curiosity of silicone and traded in my paint-brush for a caulk-gun. Painting with silicone made sense to me and had become an obsession. Even the action of painting took new meaning and had become a performance on its own. Through the years i have experimented with different application techniques and have learned many ways of using silicone as a voice for my art.