Vital Signs 2008
Alda Escareņo
Alda Escareño was born in Mexico City, in 1984. She has lived in Toronto most of her life but has maintained an intimate relationship with her Mexican heritage which often makes its way into her work. Crafts, comic books and travelling are integral to Alda’s day-to-day life and are a constant source of inspiration. A recent graduate of York University’s Fine Arts program, she works primarily with printmaking and illustration. Alda recently participated in the Toronto Arts Council’s 2008 Nuit Blanche project.
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Vital Signs 2008
Cuatro Hermanas 2008
The artist is presenting a handmade fold-up artist book, a series of dolls, and two relief prints.
Image 1: An artist pop-up book, which shows two hands holding red threads over rippled water. The images on the pages are linocut prints . Image 2: Four stuffed dolls printed with silk-screened Mexican imagery. Image 3: Blue and white relief print depicting a figure of a woman standing on a sitting horse. Image 4: Red and white relief print depicting a figure sitting on a jumping horse