
The need to modify the contiguous space and the objects in it has always emanated as an irresistible force. The experiences that I have had throughout my life have changed the output of that force.
The pieces have changed from my early geometric abstractions into organic abstractions of visceral “stews” of ambiguous spaces. The intrinsic need to create that has never abandoned me is now helping navigate a new representational form where the rectangular shape of the paintings brakes into organic shapes that call to embrace our own internal nature of synapses, veins and organs. The empty spaces in the works respond to my interest in sculpture and how volumes play in the space. The shadows the work projects onto the wall modify its depth and the viewer’s perception of the whole. Those empty spaces can also be taken as an opportunity to dive into a calm abyss of exploration of self.
In these pieces, the use of plastic, the leading material in the production and packaging of goods and one of the causes of our environmental woes, was selected as a way of recycling, creating a rebirth of a material. Trash represents the remnants of our lives, yet we usually choose to ignore it. This year has brought to light many things that we, as a nation, have been ignoring for so long, such as, systemic racism. Everyone has spent the last year in their quarantine cocoons waiting for a moment of rebirth. My work symbolizes the energy and momentum for change that has sprung out of this time of solitude. The conflicting state of finding beauty in tragedy is a recurrent theme in my work of the last three years: for example, my series Amazonas is Burning.
The organic forms, in my work, that evoke organisms, cells, synapses or viruses are visceral and respond to primal emotions, fears of unknown paths and ambiguity, yet deliver a suspended force of dynamic hope and intent for advancement.
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She has been showing her work in the Hudson Valley since moving to Kingston in 2017.
From 2022 to 2024, Isabel served as a Kingston Art Commission Commissioner. In 2023, she was the Art Out Loud Youth Exhibition Chair.
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Education
1994-1996 NYU - NY, NY M.A.Counseling
1978-1982 Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon - Buenos Aires Argentina - MFA
1974-1978 Escuela Nacional de bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Grants & Awards
1982 - Exxon Corporation Fellowship
2020 - Warwick Center for the Arts - Honorable Mention
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Exhibitions & Projects
2025
Manifesting Beloved Community 2025 - West Windsor Arts Council - Princeton, NJ
2024
Perspectives: Six Artists
The Gallery - Spencertown Academy Art Center - Spencertown, NY
2023
Water Series - A Point in Time and Space
West Strand Gallery - Kingston, NY
Water Series - Exhibicion de Arte Latino
Adriance Memorial Library - Poughkeepsie, NY
2022
UNIDOS -Exhibicion de Arte Latino
Poughkeepsie Public Library
An-AESthetics - group show
Rosekill - Kingston, NY
An-AESthetics - group show
Century House Historical Society - Rosendale, NY
Nature: Introspective Visions
West Strand Gallery - Kingston, NY
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2021
Crisalidas : an installation, solo exhibition
ASK - Kingston, NY
Skin Deep, group exhibition
Olive Free Library - West Shokan, NY
Abstraction in Space and Time, group exhibition
West Strand Gallery - Kingston, NY
Poetic License, group exhibition
ASK - Kingston, NY Poetic License, group exhibition
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2020
Gallery 40 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Hispanic Flare, group exhibition
Queen City 15 Gallery - Poughkeepsie, NY - Women, group exhibition
Poetic License - ASK, group exhibition
Stay Home Make Art - Dorsky Museum online exhibition
Warwick Center for the Arts - Warwick, RH - Abiding Courage Exhibition
ASK - Kingston, NY - Women's History Month
ArtBar Gallery - Kingston, NY - In support of Washbourne House
Emerge Gallery - Saugerties, NY - Paper Trail
WomensWork.Art Gallery -
Poughkeepsie, NY - CelebrateWomxn845
Art Juxtapose Gallery -Rosendale, NY
2019
Art JuXtapose Gallery - Rosendale, NY
Kingston City Hall - Sanctuary
ASK - Kingston, NY
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2018
ASK - Kingston, NY
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Summer 2007 Bajos de Chila, Oaxaca – Mexico
Organized, taught, and realized mural with local children at the Bajos de Chila Sports Center.
1983-1993 Exhibited art work in Europe, North America and Latin America
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