Maria del Mar Villalvazo Mendoza, a.k.a Maria Villalvazo, is a creative soul who enjoys exploring the arts. She was born in Orizaba, Veracruz in Mexico. Currently, she resides in Saint Paul, MN. As a visual artist, she is on a constant journey where she fulfills her recurring need for self-expression through different mediums, doing research in a diversity of materials and processes. She makes varied disciplines work together tapping into photography, sculpture, graphic design, and experimental processes.
Learning to bring her artistic vision into unusual mediums is an exciting way for her to push her limits. A constant in her artistic journey has been photography, in this field she performs as a Fine Art Photographer, where she builds concepts and associations, and pairs social issues with the narrative of what she captures through her lens. She works closely with fellow artists documenting art exhibitions, performances, and events.
She recently performed at a solo exhibition "Coexist". In this collection, she invites the observer to question the concept of duality, which alludes to the coexistence of two different characters in the same entity. By making use of contrasting concepts such as ephemeral and mundane, she aims to reflect this duality in her own experience as an immigrant who coexists in this duality. One who had to embrace who she is without canceling who she was, and who she will become.
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