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she-wolf_21/ digital image. 2008

female figure/ 2009, charcoal on paper, 58 x 37 in.

kristeanna/ 2008, graphite and ink on paper, 21 x 28 in.

Paloma Ayala www.palomaayala.info plastato@gmail.com Native of Mexico, Paloma studied her BFA at the University of Monterrey Mexico, (2002, UdeM). In 2003 she received her Professional Teaching Degree (Arte A.C.) and started working as a teacher in several respected schools at her hometown of Monterrey. She is currently teaching and developing her artwork in Rochester NY, where she has lived since 2005. She has participated in exhibitions in the U.S. (Buffalo and Rochester), and Monterrey, Mexico. In Rochester, she has worked as an artist and art teacher in different institutions (invited artist at City School #12, and Memorial Art Gallery) and runs her own children and adult workshops at WPK (Whipple Park, University of Rochester Student Housing). Her artwork is intended to be intriguing, provoke curiosity and awake a personal sense of self-consciousness through the deep passional desires of our own body. The images explore eroticism from the perspective of those things we desire but are considered disgusting, untasteful and traditionally avoided in a moral way. Sometimes the artwork shows organic abstracts and deformed bodies. Other times, it focuses on distinctive figurative human body studies. The human body is essential inspiration and appears in almost all her art. She uses drawing an painting media, usually in a large format, and is also interested in digital media, working with computers to “finish” details or continue her figure drawing interests