Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1994, she studied for a BFA in Visual Arts at Rutgers University-Newark. Carpintero has exhibited work in the US including recent shows at The Newark Public Library in Newark, NJ, Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL, and an upcoming show at Studio 9D in Chelsea, New York. Her published works include a zine “Vaguely” and features in The Mobile Library by The Aerogramme Center for Arts and Culture and Protest Magazine. Carpintero lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Artist Statement
Through an intimate lens I explore themes relating to mental and emotional states including depression, anxiety, recollection, and dissociation. I am interested in feelings and memories and the ways we act on, hold on to, change, or mute them. My work blends painting and photography to create contrasting senses of strangeness and familiarity. Mainly working with self-portraits, some common motifs used to communicate the psychological undertones are black and white imagery, distorted or faceless heads, desolate spaces, heavy textures, and white noise. Other subject matters and influences include natural and architectural landscapes showing signs of age, vulnerability, or abandonment.