“I am interested in language and its many forms: visual, literal, abstract.  Working across a wide array of digital and traditional media, I cross-pollinate disciplines through installation, performance and collage. Memento mori and resilience are enduring themes in the arc of my labor, often driven by process, materials and place.”

Bio

Chicago native Del Fuego is a visual artist and writer.  She examines personal, cultural and environmental concerns through installation, performance and collage. A graduate in Fine Arts (Indiana University, Bloomington), Del Fuego was commissioned to create new work for Herron Galleries and Tube Factory.  She has participated in exhibitions at Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati), The Stutz, Harrison Center for the Arts, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art among others. Her paintings and photographs are in corporate and private collections on five continents.  Awards include a Process/Progress Fellowship (Indy Movement Arts Collective), a grant from Indianapolis Arts Council and a residency on the Harbor Coast of Michigan. Del Fuego was interviewed on Create Hear Conversations (WQRT) and was featured in Mirror Indy.  She lives and works in Indianapolis.

Artist Statement

My interdisciplinary work aims to carve out an embodied experience of agency for the viewer/participant which, beyond the immediacy of experience, extends a subtle invitation for self-reflection. The carrying out of this potential introspection is what I consider collaboration, a communion and continuation of the work.  At the very least, which is just as important, something new and different happened, someone engaged with the quest of my work.  What does it mean to live with questions?  What do I do with the ineffable and the unanswerable? I make art because it is my visceral response to life.