Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Meet the Artist
Paulina
Padilla
aka. Citronelaa, Painting
“My work navigates the instincts of the body in its different manifestations. Experiencing our body through a screen, can magnify the distraction and entrainement lens through which we encounter the world. The silent qualities of painting, I believe can draw us closer to ourselves and the introspective silences we long for.The landscapes of fragmented women in my paintings explore the concept of "Shelter" as a physical construction, a sanctuary, a digital space, an emotional or imaginary place inside the human mind. These shelters exist as a response to the enervating and over-saturated world that we inherited. The women's bodies, elongated, flexible, moldeable and creaking are celebrated in their slightly deformed state. Their heightened sensorial intake is represented through synthetic colors in order to imitate the accelerated and over-stimulied digital present. My work is currently shifting - I'm preparing my solo show in San Miguel de Allende Mx- and I expect to make 7 kaleidoscopic arrangements of bodies that explore the collective in a more 'designed' manner over medium-large format paintings. ”
Multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico-Canada, I went to Emily Carr U and OCAD University.I am interested in institutional and independent pedagogy. I have given workshops in public elementary schools in Vancouver, in the Contemporary Art Museum Querétaro-Mexico, where I worked in the education department, as well as in my private studio. I have given conferences about the liminal, memorization and adversity. I recently had my first solo show in San Miguel de Allende and I have collaborated with the Royal Society of Canada, The Canadian Women’s Foundation, Feminist Art Fest Toronto, and independent curators in Mexico City and England.Im currently exhibiting with Anois Art UK- IGNITE! Youth Festival Vancouver- and Trámite Buró de Coleccionistas Mexico.
Cultural Programmer, Artist Run Exhibitions Adult and Children Pedagogy Museum Practices- Education Department Fine Art Purchase Advisor- Working with Spartan Blue MX Digital Painting, Design- Working with IGNITE! Vancouver