Illuminate by Aurora Oliva
March 7th through April 7th, 2025. Opening reception March 7th 6 pm to 8 pm.
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Artist
M. Aurora Oliva is a Filipino-American artist. She immigrated to the United States with her parents in the 1980's. Aurora describes herself as a "pandemic artist". During the pandemic, the social isolation allowed her to reflect and ask the important question of what brings her alive.
The answer became clear. She started playing with paint on index cards in late 2021 and those little index cards turned into bigger and bigger works. Her work has been influenced by abstract patterns such as quilts.
"| have been creative all my life, but the quarantine forced me to rethink my life's purpose. In the last two and half years, I have made it a full-time "job" to learn and play".
