Touch Receptors 0094 by Nayda Collazo-Llorens

Current Highest Bid: $900 

Nayda Collazo-Llorens 

Touch Receptors 0094, 2024

12 x 8 1/4 in.

Ink on paper

About the Work

Touch Receptors is an ongoing series of abstract drawings that began in 2013 and through which I associated marks and mark-making with sensory nerve endings found in our skin and tactile sensations sent to our brains. After a three-year break, the series resumed in 2020 at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since then, the drawings have also explored concepts of disruption and collapse as well as mapping and dislocation, subjects I explore in other mediums, including video, installations, and site-specific works.

About the Artist

Nayda Collazo-Llorens, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a visual artist who works in various media, including drawing, video, installations, and site-specific works. She earned an MFA from New York University and a BFA from the  Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio in New York, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City, and the Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand, among others. She lives and works in Kalamazoo, Michigan and is a 2024-25 Rooted + Relational Hybrid Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO).