These are some of my most recent mixed-media collage, currently being shown at Gallery 5, Richmond, VA. They are 12x12 inches, and are available for sale. Very affordable prints of most works are also available. If interested in purchasing works, please contact me at elkamorim@gmail.com

Upcoming Exhibition

Gallery 5

200 W. Marshall St.

Richmond, Virginia 23220

Phone: 804 644 0005

gallery5@gallery5arts.org

Opening: Friday, September 4th

New Mixed Media Collage

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Corporate & Museum Frame Gallery

301 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA, 23220

Friday, July 03, 2009

To contact me about upcoming exhibitions or to purchase works, you can e-mail me at elkamorim@gmail.com, or look me up on Facebook. To read more about this series, go to

http://issuu.com/rvamag/docs/rvav4i11coverweb

This was a little installation I did on top of my coffee table. The Lovers went on to become part of an elaborate game of cards. They are conjoined and forever crippled by their apparent inability to move independently from one another. If separated, the severed half could not bare the absence of her lover, and would surely perish, without legs of her own. Their destiny is unsure. 

These are part of an ongoing series of works on "family portraits". The wedding pictures are of my grandmother, the little girl dressed for Carnaval is me,  the piece with the identity card has 3  pictures of my mother, and the girl doing her homework in school is my mother's younger sister.  

These works belong to a series of self-portraits i've been working on over the past two years. They are not digitally manipulated. It's all old fashion collage, and mixed-media on paper. Most are 12 x 12 inches.

These drawings were done as part of a series of mixed-media / etchings I did at Hunter College in NY city. They belong to a series titled Diario de Bordo. Many begin with a one-of a kind etching (I almost never do multiples or editions) and they get incorporated into a mixed-media collage/drawing, often with various layers of translucent paper. The pseudo-science illustrations are a direct consequence of having grown up with a micro-biologist in my house (my dad), and the narrative probably has something to do with the many fantastic stories from my mother, who studied comparative literature and did her thesis on Clarice Lispetor.