Samantha R Mendoza

Artist Statement

“My work is primarily narrative, imbued with a fusion of personal and universal symbolism, in order to weave the intimacy of self-inquiry with patterns of collective thought and experience. My investigations flirt with ideas of gender, specifically interpretations of ‘Woman’ and femininity, in conjunction with mental health and human fallibility. Elements appropriated from various time periods, mythologies, rituals, and atmospheres blend to fabricate settings and situations that exist somewhere in the gap between the familiar and the mystical.

These works are executed through various printmaking methods with an emphasis on mark-making and drawing. The intensity of labor serves as both a means of catharsis as well as indulgence, pushing the intricacy to satisfy my hunger for ornamentation and detail.”