LA-based, artist Stephanie Rose Guerrero’s mixed-media paintings invoke ideas of ancestry, environment, labor and technology. Referencing agricultural and desert icons drawn from the tradition of her maternal lineage in Youngsville and Coyote, Northern New Mexico, Guerrero draws, prints, and superimposes a metaphysical vista over foggy layers of diffusion paper, re-claimed from discarded flat-screen televisions. Guerrero’s work explores dependance on the natural world while reckoning with growing technological reliance and the relationship between healthy soil and detritus.

The works featured in the permanence of forgetting overcome their static reality through the layering of this truly unique material. Like a lens continually shifting focus, deep-rooted motifs conceal and reveal themselves: marigold blooms scaled to the magnitude of thunderclouds, pale delineations of a faceless farm worker, the vivid lemons he cultivates.

Guerrero’s re-purposed ‘screens’ cast a futuristic light upon the scenery composed by the artist. Silvery figurations drift over chromatic geometry in soft focus, suggesting a plane both cyber and imaginary. Weathered hands spill golden earth over a ridgeline adorned by larger-than-life desert flora in Offering Sand to outrun our burdens. The ghostly white outlines of a horse canters across the foreground, its contours interlacing with the landscape and sunset palette of soft rose, ochre and cerulean. Guerrero consecrates the hardworking lifestyle of those who knew this land before her, infusing it with warmth and magic realism.

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