Tatiana Escallon
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Artist Statement
Abstract artist born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Escallón started her creative career as a designer and illustrator. It was years later when painting became her main language. In the year 2000 she moved to Houston in search of a better horizon.
My painting is a process of short poems that pass freely onto the canvas; I allow the moment to remain alive on the painting, respecting the gesture and trusting my intuition. My work has the use of illegible words, in English and in Spanish, because today I am both. My Figurative work gives me the opportunity to break the rules to enter a new dialogue, creating a different dynamic reading on the canvas due to the body movements. Over the years I have acquired a special appreciation for eyes and hands, both for their shape and their power to express and communicate.
For The Summer of 2022 she exhibited her Torero Capotes(capes) for the first Time in Mexico City at The Museo Silverio Perez During 2021 Escallon was awarded at the photography contest Surviving Woman Resilient Women in Madrid Spain,
For the summer 2021 Escallon has been invited to exhibit one piece at Casa Museo El Romeral, Madrid Spain at the “Jardin de los Artistas” exhibition. Her work was awarded and is now in the museum permanent collection. During the spring/summer 2021 she participated in the group exhibit at The Holocaust Museum, Latin Art in Times of Conflict, in Houston TX, on view until Oct 17. She also made a 41 feet long Mural for The City of Sugarland at the Square Plaza.
During 2020/21 she exhibit at the Art Museum TX , located in katy, (Houston suburb)her large Scale paintings which later were shown in The Sugarland Location. Her work is and was part of Latino Art Now! for both 2019 and 2020 billboard campaigns celebrating Houston Latino artists. Latino Art Now! is a national platform and partner of the Smithsonian Institution. In 2019 she received the SACI (Support for Artist and Creative Individuals) grant from the HAA (Houston Arts Alliance), to create and exhibit large scale paintings from the collection “Taste and Contrast”. During the last years she has also received support from the IUPLR (Inter-University Program for Latino Research University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies) Fresh Arts and Art Launch.
By the end of 2022 she will have a piece in the X Bienale of WTA (woman Textile Art) and for 2023 her work will joing the Tour Juan de La Cierva through Madrid, Murcia, Switzerland and USA.
