PALOMA MENÉNDEZ

Mérida-based Paloma Menéndez is an artist and educator whose work explores space and place through painting and drawing, conveying the geographical features of landscape as well as alternative ones derived from her imagination. In paintings shown at the Joshua Treenial, Menéndez inserts elements and characters from real life or fairy tales to combine nature, real and fictional, the present and the past to achieve a true parallax of Paradise. Born in Mexico City, she attended La Esmeralda from 1985 to 1990. Her work has been shown in Mexico, United States, Germany, Austria, and France. Since 2009 she has held a faculty position at Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán.

Artist website: pvartcenter.org/EXHIBITIONS/paloma-menendez