Helena La Rota López is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ridgewood, NY. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, she emigrated to study Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College (BA 2016), then Painting and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art (MFA 2019), and printmaking at the Art Students League (2020-22). Currently, she teaches at Montclair State University, NJ. Her work is a tightrope walk between clinical and romantic, and her studio is a laboratory for expanding medium definitions in service of psychological experimentation. She fuses diverse expressive languages into an organic web of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and performative installation, which features her musical and choreographic compositions. Her research stems from the body: as architectural construction in anatomy; as symbol in folklore and mythology; as the bearer of our ancestors’ history and as vessel when storytelling; but mostly as a sensorial portal linking ourselves to our surroundings. Her Bestiary project questions social definitions that trap our bodies into states of otherness.
Muñeca (Wrist)
Pecho (Chest)
