Libby Paloma is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in a wide range of mediums including assemblage, installation, photography, video and performance. Paloma's work is inspired by mythology and allegory while exploring and celebrating Chicana, Mexican and Queer culture. Paloma's most recent works are assemblages featuring a portrait that is surrounded by intricate beadwork, religious relics, and miniature items that depict personal identity politics, gender and sexuality, and issues of cultural heritage.

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Por Vida 

Triptych in collaboration with Ace Lehenr (lightjet prints, cotton, denim) installation shot, 2017

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Por Vida detail shot

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Por Vida detail shot

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Por Vida detail shot

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Guadalupe to Chingona: A Narrative of Migration y Corozón  

Installation shot, in collaboration with Ace Lehner (maps, map tacks, text), 2017

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Guadalupe to Chingona: A Narrative of Migration y Corozón detail shot

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Guadalupe to Chingona: A Narrative of Migration y Corozón detail shot

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Margarita AKA Cookie

Multimedia assemblage (photograph, beads, miniatures), 2017

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Nacho AKA Paloma

Multimedia assemblage (photograph, beads, miniatures), 2017

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Chingona AKA Libby

Multimedia assemblage (photograph, beads, miniatures), 2017

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Nunca Más

 

Multimedia assemblage (coyote skin, dried flowers, rosary beads, crystals, sequins, miniatures), 2017

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Altar 

Installation shot in collaboration with Ace Lehner (pom poms, crystals, lace doilies, lights, fabric, flowers), 2017

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On Fuego

Digital photograph, 2017

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Ven Conmigo

Still from lip sync performance to "Islands in the Stream" in collaboration with Lynda James, 2017

A Boy Named Nacho, 2017 

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A Boy named Nacho

Still from drag lip sync performance to "A Boy Named Sue" at Hogtied Hudson Valley, 2017