BIO
Maria Alfaro is a Mexican-American artist born and raised in a small town named Acumbaro Michoacan. Her medium of work is primarily woodcut relief-printing. Alfaro discovered printmaking in 2018 and immediately fell in love with it. She focuses on ideas about cultural heritage, traditions, identity, and memories. Most of the work is a reflection of childhood experiences, growing up in an impoverished small town to which later she immigrated from. Maria depicts a variety of collaged images in odd compositions in hopes of creating odd realities or dream-like places. The landscapes are often thriving with animals, insects, and plants. Alfaro approaches the themes with its own narratives because often there is a centralized theme with specific people or relatives. Maria has always emphasized the importance of capturing beauty in smaller things as well as appreciating the beauty of mother nature.

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