The Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative is pleased to announce Lares Feliciano as their featured artist for September. Lares’s work will go up on September 1st, and she will have a reception on September 10th from 4pm-6pm to kick off Art Fest!
About the artist:
Lares Feliciano is an artist, cultural worker, tarot reader, and witch based in the sacred San Luis Valley, Colorado. Feliciano uses animation, installation, and collage to create worlds where diverse stories are front and center and all of time exists at once. Her work explores the in-between, layers of diaspora, and the complexity of memory. She holds an M.F.A in Cinema Production from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in Film American Studies from Smith College. She has completed residencies with RedLine Contemporary Art Center and Grand Canyon National Park. Recently she completed the Frontier Fellowship with Epicenter in Green River, Utah. A Bay Area born, Southern raised, mixed-race Puerto Rican, Lares believes in the power of telling our layered stories to both empower and incite change. Lares’ process manifests as a ritual of gathering found materials (archives, ephemera, primary sources), deconstructing their original intention, and finally piecing them together to build new meaning.
Currently Lares is embarking on a body of work focused on time, specifically human beings & relationship with time and the ways we build meaning through time and space. She is interested in creating experiences where time slows down, turns back, and blends together. Where the participant can microdose time travel through their senses, memory, and imagination. Lares wants to ignite the inner child through playful installations that encourage us all to slow down. In a world of increasing chaos, we owe it to ourselves to slow time.
Feliciano’s films have screened all over the world including San Francisco, Berlin, London, and Melbourne. Her visual art has exhibited at Denver Art Museum, Clyfford Still Museum (Denver), RedLine Contemporary Art Center (Denver), The Storeroom (Denver), Breck Create (Breckenridge) and Pochron Studios (Brooklyn).
Lares Feliciano lives and works in Alamosa, CO with her partner and three cats.
Current/Upcoming Exhibits
● Future Town Tour, Downtown Alamosa
● Weld Walls, September 15-19, Downtown Greeley
● Artist Reception/ArtFest Kickoff, September 10th, 4pm-6pm Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative
Learn more about Lares at her websites laresfeliciano.com and heartandlungsranch.com
