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Statement
1. What kind of Artwork do you make? I like to make toes around the jar with brown mud clay and a big horse with human meatball toes on a big piece of drawing paper.
2. What materials do you like to use? Why? I like to use foam clay because it’s soft and squishy and you can make snowmen, toes, waterfalls, and buildings without water.
3. What do you like to make pictures of? What inspires you? I like to draw park scenes and living things because the drawing looks more alive with plants, trees, animals, a blue sky. And people, ponds, benches, and tree branches blowing in the wind.
4. Where and when do you like to make artwork? I like to make artwork in LAND Gallery in NY because its peaceful and quiet. You can see trees, buildings, people, animals, and the Brooklyn Bridge in front of the big window, and spending time with my friends. Sometimes I draw at home in New York when there’s nothing else to do, and in Puerto Rico, its nice to draw over there because it's a nice hot island with fresh air.
5. What kind of artist do you consider yourself to be? Ceramics- sculpting things out of mud clay such as mouth plates, nose mugs, toe jars, snowmen, buildings, a teddy bear, animals, people, landscapes, inside of the human body, and pregnant women looking alive in 3D.
6. How does being an artist make you feel? It makes me feel creative to try different things, such as painting on a canvas board and finding new ways to create things, and also watercolor paint.
Bio
Raquel Albarran (b. 1987) is a Puerto Rican born artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Preoccupied with toes, noses, and encapsulated forms, Albarran’s art is full of juxtapositions and playful explorations of life, illness, and objects begging to be squeezed. Prominent in both her drawings and sculptures is a delightful sense of Albarran’s mischief, humor, and energy. Albarran describes the fantastical and sometimes bizarre pairings in her work as an endearing “mix of light and dark” and warns viewers that there will always be “a lot of amputations going on.” In 2018, her work was celebrated in two solo exhibitions at New York City’s Fortnight Institute and the Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
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