Artist Bio
MARIANNA JIMENEZ EDWARDS is a Mexican American/Chicana visual artist who is immersed in the discovery of her Mexican culture, history and identity. Born in El Paso, but having lived in Milwaukee, South Florida, San Francisco and now Boise for 15 years, Edwards seeks a dynamic interplay between realistically rendered figures, objects, and symbols resulting in textured and layered surfaces. At the core of her paintings are portraits or figures of family members and/or friends, expressing a sense of lost identity or divided heritage. Her method is to present the impact of being separated from one’s culture and its effect on being seen as Mexican in American spaces.