Biography
Paulina Eguino is a first generation, queer, Latina artist from Los Angeles, California. She is a recent graduate and Posse Program scholar from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and earned her Bachelor’s in Fine Art. Her concentrations are in glass working, screen printing and comics and she briefly studied abroad at Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy. She has produced graphics for “Yuyo Bros”, a successful food truck based in LA, and has exhibited work in the Chazen Museum and on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Paulina Eguino permanently lives in Los Angeles but consistently travels nationally and internationally to produce work.
Artist Statement
“Penises, asymmetrical nipples, leaky body parts, eyebags, indecency. The Penguino was born.”
My motivation to blur lines and disrupt societal norms and pressures stems from the intersectionality of my minoritized identities. Utilizing my artwork as a method of processing, digesting and rewriting experiences, I thereby place power and authorship back into my hands. It is within my fictional realm that I possess the creative license to reimagine a radical world where genderless, diverse, shameless animal beings dominate over humans. Though my creatures are fictional, they are grounded in reality as they too mimic human qualities and systems such as gluttony and capitalism.
I employ solid linework to express the boldness of my creatures in a visually striking, graphic style. Always originating as two-dimensional illustrations, I utilize lines as building blocks in my designs. At times the designs continue in two dimensions and live as comics and prints, at others, they are animated into three dimensions using glass neon tubes and mixed-media. The materials themselves advance my work thematically and conceptually as I explore themes of societal norms and hierarchy which teeter between fragile and firm and is perfectly personified in the material of glass.
In both my illustrative and glass working processes, I enjoy working in physical layers. This layering of themes, materials, and visuals all operating together to fabricate one dynamic story or image. Collectively, I channel this dynamic multi-dimensional style of illustration to unpack my queer Latinx experience.
I employ solid linework to express the boldness of my creatures in a visually striking, graphic style. Always originating as two-dimensional illustrations, I utilize lines as building blocks in my designs. At times the designs continue in two dimensions and live as comics and prints, at others, they are animated into three dimensions using glass neon tubes and mixed-media. The materials themselves advance my work thematically and conceptually as I explore themes of societal norms and hierarchy which teeter between fragile and firm and is perfectly personified in the material of glass.
In both my illustrative and glass working processes, I enjoy working in physical layers. This layering of themes, materials, and visuals all operating together to fabricate one dynamic story or image. Collectively, I channel this dynamic multi-dimensional style of illustration to unpack my queer Latinx experience.
Curriculum Vitae