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Coming Home by Kilia Llano in New York
Coming Home
I recently made this mural for the project "Los Colores de RD" at the entrance of the city of Santo Domingo. In this piece I worked with the concept of home, of what home represents and what we miss when we are away. For us Dominicans, our home is our people, our culture. I wanted to be inspired by my grandmother Rita, those years when I lived abroad and longed for my grandmother's food, her chambres, her buñuelos and her beautiful smile??.
Meet the Artist
Meet the Artist
New York, United StatesKilia Llano is a multidisciplinary artist from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her realistic/impressionist style is committed to capturing human emotions and their environment, the social world in which they develop, but also the relationship with nature based on our humanity, and how our personal experiences transform the way we relate and see the world around us. Kilia got her BFA (Fine Arts and Illustration) at Chavón School of Design (DR) and Parsons School of design (NY), among other minor studies at Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona (Ancient Art History) and UNIBE university (Art Education), where she developed her interest in different painting and drawing techniques, to be able to portrait the imaginary and real world that she represents in her paintings, murals and illustrations. A visionary artist, Kilia pushes her knowledge of traditional techniques and convert it in a unique, modern, and strong style, and is also committed to teach the future generation of artists. Her work has been exhibited in many places in the DR but also outside (USA, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain and Italy) and is present in prestigious, public and private collections at the DR, and small collections in the USA.
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