Fabiana Peña Pacheco is a Colombian-born artist who graduated from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia who first exhibited her engravings in a group show in 1993 at the Galeria Espacios Alternos de Uniadinos in Bogota.
A decade later, Peña began to have yearly collective exhibitions and in 2005, she began having solo shows of her works in Bogota and Washington DC that included participation at the 5th edition of the Suba Biennial in Bogota in 2005, and at the BID-Staff Association in Washington, DC in 2010.
Peña's works have been widely published in Colombia in a collection of poetry & short-story books and in Colombian art magazines and newspapers such as Le Monde Diplomatique, Revista de Arte "Comun Presencia," Revista de Arte Demente #1 "Visual Art," among others.
Fabiana Peña Pacheco will be exhibiting in Miami at Elite Fine Art Galleries in Wynwood during Second Saturday's Art Walk.
Examiner.com interviewed the artist to talk about her works and her inspiration for creativity.
Examiner: Why do you create art? My preferred way of talking or expressing myself is through images that's why art expresses that which I am not able to express with words.
Examiner: Are you the only one artist in your family? Tell us when and how your artistic career got started. I'm not the only artist in my family. Me and my family have always been surrounded by an artistic environment which somehow shaped my life and the lives of others in my family as well. My family has allowed me the opportunity to explore my creative capacities since I was a very young child up to supporting me to go to art school allowing myself to continue in this endless creative path.
Examiner: Do you have any special mentor or artists that have inspired you? I have been really inspired by many artists some of which have been more compelling than others such as artists Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, Louis Aston Knight, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Egon Schiele, Robert Raushenberg, Salvador Dali, and Auguste Rodin just to name a few. It's a long list that also includes Willem de Kooning, Joseph Beuys and Joseph Kosuth. Their conceptual images are unconsciously fixated in my memory which ultimately work in conjunction with my own desires to create works.
Examiner: How do you get inspired to create a piece of art? My inspiration has always changed and has varied with time. There are so many facets we artists go through in our careers that depend on many things such as the environment, cultural circumstances, upbringing, etc. From all the different topics available to be inspired, there are some that catch my attention especially from those moments which are transcendental in nature.
Examiner: How would you describe your work? Paintings with a strong personal language merging past, present and future as if there were allies in time. My works are consistent with my own reality in which I freely express my emotions and my condition of being human in a contemporary fashion.
Examiner: As an artist, how do you see life? What is the relationship between your spirit and soul? It's very clear for me that life is about the opportunity to do things taking advantage of all the possibilities offered to us, the opportunity to be and the sense of being, to occupy a place in time and the ability to create. My soul is unique, like the strawberry on top of the cake, without it, I could not be complete, everything in this body may deteriorate but not my soul; it remains intact so that when I I feel overwhelmed, I reach for it and bring it to my consciousness finding stability and peace.
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