Self Portrait

Nacera's Resume In Art

During the Summer Quarter of 2005, Nacera Guerin exhibited her paintings in "Passionate Work", at Serra House for the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

For Nacera Guerin, art is a vital part of society. Art makes a community come together to understand and question the ideals and actions of that community. At best, art can remove boundaries of race, age, politics, and language; and prompt discussion.

Nacera paints the passions and energies that influence our ideas or seek to direct our efforts. She pushes and pulls imagery out of her various mediums, sometimes enhancing a perceived part of a face, figure, or animal. The artist molds and works a viscous paint or plaster into the image of her strong emotion. Her work is always a reaction to an emotion, event, dream, or awareness.

Three paintings make up her Global Warning series. She created dense, textural color fields to show a child's view of the world, a world of environmental disaster, and a possible future world.

The artist is showing several portrait heads. Using saturated, vibrant blues, purples, yellows, reds, and black, Nacera paints herself consumed by fear, joy, or hesitation. Other work in ink and watercolor shows the artist's meditative and erotic synergistic enhancing of imagery hidden in an ink or color wash.
From Sarah Ratchye