ARCADIA CARABALLO

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Arcadia Caraballo is a mixed media artist. She draws inspiration from the human form and how individuals live in their own bodies. Her charcoal and oil pastel figurative works are drawn from live models.  Caraballo collaborates with a broad range of female and male models who collectively reflect the diversity of New York City and the varied body types that she considers real people. Her intent is to celebrate the body whether it is the ideal form presented in the media or the womanly figure that she has embodied from an early age.

Arcadia attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1986,  she received the St. Gauden’s Medal for Sculpture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Arcadia has exhibited her work at Pratt Institute, The ACAA Gallery, B.A.A.D., Galleria 106, State Senator Jose Serrano East Harlem office, Bronx River Art Center, Union Settlement Arts Festival, and the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Camaradas, P.S. 109 El Barrio’s Artspace, Manhattan’s Neighborhood Network, SMV Gallery, La Marqueta del Barrio and Pepe Coronado’s Print Studio.