ELVIA CARREON
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Elvia Carreon is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020 with a primary focus in painting and art therapy. She documents family dynamics, memory, celebration, and womanhood within her Mexican-American home. Adornments such as folkloric wear, hair, clothing, jewelry, and animal print transform into her own sacred materials. She uses these intimate objects to destigmatize craft in Latinx art and honors them as they provided her first studio teachings. She showcases these intimate experiences within her family and investigates the way oral narrative influences intergenerational bondings. This form of “chisme” or gossip culture shapes the information shared in her work and further explores the nuances of language, gender, religion, nationality, and sexuality.
WORKS
Trenzitas y chismes
Acrylic, ribbons, hair fibers on canvas
50 x 80 in
Familia bloodline
Yarn, acrylic on canvas
50 x 80 x 30 in
Abuelita prayers, 2017
Yarn, acrylic on plaster
13 x 13 x 4 in
Trenza
Relief print
24 x 24 in
EXHIBITIONS
LatchKey Gallery | 173 Henry Street | info@latchkeygallery.com | 646.213.9070