March 2023 / Jun 2023
Carla Javier-Brea (Berkeley, CA, 1989) is a Dominican-American illustrator, printmaker, ceramist, skateboarder, and tattoo artist based in Portland, Oregon. Graduate of Advertising Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana, UNIBE, and MFA in Print Media at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon.
The artist first solo exhibition presents a selection of new works in engraving techniques, watercolor, ink drawings on paper, and ceramic sculptures.The artist first solo exhibition presents a selection of new works in engraving techniques, watercolor, ink drawings on paper, and ceramic sculptures.
Carla uses linoleum engraving to reproduce her art mixing it with illustration and tattooing. Her imaginative scenes blur the line between species and the inner and outer world. She works fluidly across mediums such as linocut, sculpture, watercolor, Chinese ink, and graphite – closely linked to the land and manual crafts, emphasizing the aspect of the human being as part of nature, and infusing her pieces with raw energy and emotion. Carla encourages viewers to find personal parallels or keep them within reality.