Vanessa Bistrain

When asked to recall her most profound childhood memories, Vanessa Bistrain reminisces about weekends spent with her father and sisters painting with watercolors. She would later go on to study graphic design, photography, painting, illustration, engraving, sculpture and textile design at several universities throughout Latin America and the United States.

The daughter of a Brazilian mother and Mexican father, Vanessa Bistrain draws heavily on the influence of the two cultures in her work. The contrasts between the two are often noted in the artist’s usage of warm and cold colors; and the results are striking. Mastery of various techniques using acrylic and sand mixed with warm colors give added texture and brightness to her work. And the passion associated with Latin American cultures is apparent in Bistrain’s urgent desire to incite the soul and transmit feelings of absence, presence, sadness and happiness through her paintings. Bistrain currently resides in Mexico.