Latin-Canadian artist Claudia Gutierrez feels there's a strong connection between her print, paintings, and textile pieces and her heritage. Gutierrez finds inspiration for her work in literature, poetry, culture, and her memories of life in Canada and her visits to Latin America, and has woven together a beautifully winding path towards her present work in the studio, which she now does full-time.
You’ve done two residencies, one in Canada and the other in Oaxaca, Mexico. How did the two experiences differ? I was there just a month. I have visited Mexico and Uruguay, where my mother is from, my whole life and have traveled to many Latin American countries so this particular residency felt like a culmination of all of my family visits and collecting of memories: it was the first time I visited my father’s country with an artistic lens rather than a visitor’s.
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