Connie Martin Trevino
Summer 2021 Artist in Residence
“I believe this residency will provide me the opportunity to expand my vision and encourage me to focus on creating a specific series during this time. Artistically, this opportunity will challenge me to open up and not be afraid to talk about my ideas, feelings and the work. I feel having the studio space will provide me a place to create and people to share and exchange ideas with. By having the space to work larger and a place to exhibit I know this will continue to encourage me to expand what's possible.”
-Connie Martin Trevino, Summer 2021 AiR
Artist Statement
My work currently is focused on both ceramics and photography/photo based collage. My work is about feeling, it can be abstract, figurative, colorful, dark, funny, sexual etc. My practice is to do something creative/art related every day.
Connie Martin Trevino
Where Black Hearts Become Guardians
September 1 - September 30, 2021
“The vessels represent a place that can be filled with memory, love, and flowers. The sea creatures are our ancestors, guardians, talismans, and protectors in the present world.”
- Connie Martin Trevino
Where Black Hearts Become Guardians is Arts at Blue Roof’s first solo presentation of Los Ange- les-based artist Connie Martin Trevino. Through her emergent ceramic forms and
photographic prints, Trevino honors the Black people who, during the middle passage, gave their lives to the deep abyss of the sea rather than be subjugated by their captors. Trevino’s work departs from an imagined transformation/ rebirth/reincarnation that occurred after each person took their last human breath. Through the use of figures of hearts, vessels, and sea creatures, Trevino explores femininity, inequality and the grotesque while confronting cultural and painful her/histories.
