My name is Stephanie R Hernandez-T.
I come from immigrant parents that are 2nd generation from the Dominican Republic. My family is very diverse originating from Spain-Ireland, Japan, Africa and Taino. I was born and raised in Long Island, NY. As an autistic child, painting was my first language and my first love. I enjoyed fashion classes in high school and I continued my education in college where I got my associates in Fine arts and science during which my mother passed. I threw myself into my art again to help me survive the pain of losing my only true friend. Spiraling a deep depression while being a mother of 4 was incredibly hard. I moved to Florida to start over and have a new life. To get back what I lost. My art. My heart. The mediums I use vary from oil paints, pastels, digital art, acrylics and mixed medias and watercolors and pencils/ color pencils/ charcoal. I’m currently experimenting with tattoos and I’ve taken the trade of nail art and creating murals. I use many techniques such as pointillism, stippling, long brush strokes, layering and more. The theme is my heart on display.
My Art Instagram is @TheSelfistArtist my nail art Instagram is @Steph_doesitall
Website still under construction www.theselfistartist.com
Use Your Illusion Artist Statement:
My piece ‘Innocent Child’ fits the exhibit as it breaks the confines of reality by diving into an alteration of understanding and grasping a fragment of a memory yet dispersing into lines. Each line singularly seems meaningless as time itself, but when gazed in its fullness amongst all the other lines of yellow, blue, black and green color, create the memory of the child that once was. Like strings to a viola I once played in my youth, the vibrations created sound, and like such, these lines; a physical representation of those frequencies.