Teresa Ghiglino

e-mail:GHIGLI9T@aol.com

Ghiglino explores and combines different disciplines such as drawing,
photomontage, and installation. She recycles images of children, teens,
ethnic cultures, and far away landscapes from old magazines such as the
National Geographic.

She combines these found images with her own drawings of patterns, with
masterpieces of Matta, and others. Her work shows the full spectrum of
Emotionalism in eerie and fantastic scenes, with similar symbolism depicted
in legends from around the world.

Ghiglino explains her artistic endeavor "my work is mutable, and sometimes
complex to read, due to shallow grounds and murky colors. It holds the
tension of opposite forces found in imaginary, and real childhood
experiences. The saturated and intertwined layering of images brings to the
present the bursts of self-determination, and angst of her teenage years.

Each photomontage, drawing, and installation reflect her search of identity
with unanswered riddles ... hot to blend a Western vocabulary with her
Peruvian heritage? Is it possible to deny her Catholic beliefs hidden within?
or reject the pantheistic beliefs of her Inca culture? What is evident is
that her work emerges with a visual code that embraces with sensitivity the
emotional struggle and ambivalence of human kind.


Biography

Ghiglino received her MFA from the American University, and was recipient of
prestigious awards, among them, the Alma Thomas Award, and the Glassman Award.

From 1993 to 1996, Ghiglino was awarded multiple grants by the DC Commission
of the Arts and Humanities, and the National Endowment for he Arts for her
contribution to visual arts in DC. In 1997, she was selected Fellow of the
Kennedy Center Artsedge Program. In 1998, she was named DC Winning Teacher by
Coca Cola Co. Currently, she teaches art at Bell Multicultural High School
in DC.

She has exhibited her art work in Argentina, Peru, and in USA. Locally, her
work has been on display at the Museum of Latin American Art Las Americas,
OAS, National Museum of Women in the arts, Mexican Cultural Institute, NASA,
DCAC, WPA, Alla Rogers Gallery, Fondo del Sol, Northern Virginia Community
College, among many others.

Her work has been acquired by the Inter-American Development Bank, Pan
American health Organization, and private collector from Europe, USA and
Latin America.