AlejandraGuillenMa

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About me

A few things I think you may be interested in knowing

Daughter of a ceramist father and teacher at the National School of Fine Arts (Udelar), and a mother dedicated to programming and technology, I always debated between Science and Arts. That led me to develop a curious mind. So I started studying science, to later understand that my path is art (better late than never).

I love to experiment with all the materials and techniques that cross my way and apply them to my art. I am fluent in different painting techniques, both with acrylics and oils; also various traditional illustration techniques with watercolors, ink, graphite, charcoal. I also am skilled in the digital world. My father taught me the magic of ceramics when I was a child and when I grew up, I began to find the magic of materiality in embroidery threads and other materials.

Trying to match my interests, I graduated with a degree in Communication Sciences, with a mainly Audiovisual orientation. This journey led me to produce and host a radio show for more than a decade and currently I am part of the board of Broadcastle, a geek content production company that streams its programs on twitch.

n 2022 my path crossed with that of 3 other female artists living in Uruguay, and we formed the collective Oníricas.

I seek that my art, whatever technique in which is developed, makes the viewer feel immersed in the work and in the story it tells. I try to make my work open to interpretation, because even if I believe that the artist bares a bit of his soul when he creates, I also believe that art sometimes works as a mirror for the conciousness of the viewer. And I am confident this adds to the value of the work.

Experience

Some landmarks in my artistic career.

Starting to call myself an artist

I have drawn since I remember, as all children art was part of my life for as long as I remember. My father was an artist and professor at the National School for Fine Arts (Udelar). Maybe it was searching for his approval that I ended getting myself in this path. 

On 2012, 3 years after he died, I went to the National School for Fine Arts myself and took the Perception Phenomena seminar, that serves as the first year of that career. It was since then that I started to entertain the idea of being an artist. The beginning was timid, starting a separete social media for my artistic endevours, taking workshops and some commisions.  

2018 ended brightly, with my first collaborative exposition in Casa Wang. 

Artist Alley

On 2019 I took a small but very important step towards my career as an artist. My first artists fair. I also took part on a second collaborative exposition about rock icons. 

Adding to that, I started to get myself into muralism in a workshop given by Agus Rúcula and Matu CL.

 

More illustration & workshops

I took part on various workshops during 2020 with artists as Noe Cor, Agus Rúcula and Álvaro Amengual, as well as online courses in platforms like Domestika. 

2021 broght some commisions my way, and I landed my first big job. I was hired to do some illustrations for La Casa del Árbol, for a project they had with FIAPP-CdA, about climate change.

Oníricas & more jobs

On 2022 me and other 3 female artist residing in Uruguay got toghether and formed Oníricas. An artist collective to support each other, collaborate and share our journeys as artists. This year we shared our first collective artist fair, and gave our first wokshop an a collective. 

In addition to that, I participated on an hiperrrealism workshop dictated by Antonio Castelló Avilleira and landed a job with Ceibal to design characters and backgrounds for an educational animated series. 

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