Nadia Liz Estela is an interdisciplinary artist born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Newark, NJ. She received her MFA from Montclair State University in 2018. Prior to that, she attended Rutgers University-Newark and Parsons at The New School for her undergraduate studies. Estela’s work examines ideas of perception and processes of seeing. Her mixed-media pieces, which often incorporate textile and sculptural elements, references the different layers of migration; from the micro of her own personal experience to the macro of the larger phenomenon of social constructionism, labor, nature, place, and memory. She keenly explores the aspects of life and society- its norms, morals, and indoctrinated labels that we know exist but do not acknowledge. It asks about the journeys that we have made both collectively and individually; how we navigate our social and cultural capital; how have we arrived here; what are the implications of our biases; how do we profit from those imbalances; and how do all these strata make a whole or keep it separate. Her work is the tableau where these contradictions visually exist on the same plane.

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