meet me
I graduated in Italian Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Rome with a major in Cinema Studies and Communications, and I started working as a press agent for Villa Celimontana Jazz, one of the most important Jazz festivals in Italy. In ‘05 I moved to New York where I pursued graduate studies in Digital and Graphic Design at NYU, and co-founded a collective of media artists coopCreative, whose mission was to empower small businesses. From 2006 to 2009 I worked as the Art Director at WET Productions, a production company that produces media which challenges female stereotypes and advocates for equality.
In ‘09 I moved to Fort Collins, Colorado where I received my Master in Fine Arts in Graphic Design at Colorado State University in 2014, and started teaching Graphic Design. In 2015 I started working as the Designer and Communications Manager for The Gregory Allicar Museum of Art at CSU.
In 2021 I joined the Department of Art and Art History at CSU, as Director of the Hatton Gallery and Digital Performing Space.
Read my MFA THESIS – PERSPECTIVES
I started training Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art and dance form, in 2011, my Capoeira name is Onda (wave).
I volunteer for Fuerza Latina, a local organization of immigrants and allies dedicated to educating, informing, organizing, and promoting change to facilitate an improved quality of life for immigrants in our community.
I cultivate my passion for singing through study and work as a soul singer. I’m among the founders of the independent band urbanSoul.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We see what we want to see. We perceive the world around us in our own way and sometimes our perception is far from how others might perceive it. We have got used to rely on our feelings and emotions when we see or judge something and sometimes this leads to the misinterpretation of the things around us.
The main focus of my body of work is to apply my research on how the new technologies pushed the boundaries of perspective projection distortion in the digital art world. I use perspective and projections in my work not only as a technique, but also as a philosophy. Being able of looking at the world from a different perspective, being able to challenge stereotypical perspective is a powerful way to fight inequality in our society: income inequality, gender inequality. Diversity can be as simple as a different point of view.
