Aurora Pellizzi – Instituto de Visión

Aurora Pellizzi currently lives and works in Mexico City. She studied art at Cooper Union School (BFA, 2010) and art history at New York University (BA, 2005).

Aurora Pellizzi lives and works in Mexico City. The daughter of anthropologists, she was born in Mexico City and grew up between New York and Cuernavaca. She studied art at Cooper Union School (BFA, 2010) and art history at New York University (BFA, 2005). Pellizzi juxtaposes formal academic references from painting and sculpture with artisanal techniques and materials. Her artistic practice is enriched by pre-Hispanic textile processes, such as backstrap loom weaving and natural dyeing, and her work blurs the boundaries between “fine” and “applied” arts, as well as between two- and three-dimensionality. Thematically, the female body plays a central role in her work. In her representations, bodies decompose, transform, and stylize into geometric motifs, drawing simultaneous inspiration from Italian Renaissance iconography, American Pop Art, and Mexican textile traditions.

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