Marilyn
For the past year, Miami based artist Marilyn Rondon has been on my radar. At first glance, you're attracted to Marilyn's tattoos: But there's more to her than just that and on one of her latest trips to New York, I had the opportunity to meet up the Venezuelan beauty. While our time together was brief, our conversations from technology to being women of color, had me energized all day. It's safe to say that Marilyn is a radiant soul, inside and out:
How does being a Latina woman influence your style of work?
I think it just makes me more conscious to include more than one race when illustrating. I love playing with colors and being brown gives me such a nice pallet to incorporate so many eye pleasing color combinations.
Although you're a multi-media artist, which medium did you fall in love with first and how?
I’ve always loved taking photos. Although photography I think is the one medium I’m worst at, it’s my absolute favorite thing in the world to do. When I fall in love with a person, I always want to photograph everything about that person so I can freeze time, memories. Whenever I have a partner who isn’t as open to being photographed, or we don’t spend much time together I then tend to carry them into my two dimensional paintings and illustrations and my work becomes my main way of communicating with them directly in a public form, although it ends up going over their heads.
It’s crazy but most of my work is usually for my lover or “muse” and tends to be about how they draw so many emotions out of me. The only way I can humanly process my experience is by making self-reflective and narrative art, or I illustrate song lyrics that I directly relate with in that moment of my life.
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