Serena Ornales
Serena Lizette Ornelas is a multi-disciplinary artist based in El Paso, Texas. Serena obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2023in painting at the University of Texas in El Paso. Serena’s work can be described as nostalgic, feminine, and has youthful qualities that lend well to the many mediums under her belt. Serena has more recently been interested in modified replications, and allegorical portraiture pertaining mostly to ephemeral memory and perspective of female identifying individuals. The means of this vary as she has been known to weave in and out of the 2d and 3d realms. Serena Lizette Ornelas is primarily invested in the human condition. She looks at societal, environmental, and systemic complexities through the lens of a feminine and adolescent gaze. The human condition a hard pill to swallow she seeks not to undermine but to reduce these subjects into as simple terms as possible in a way a child might do naturally. Children have a less vested interest in greed, pride, and lust key differences in their adult counterparts. She seeks the wisdom of the youth an unbiased and untouched perspective. Serena believes the tarnish of earth will inevitably affect us all through our religion, sex, culture, and trauma. Her ultimate end goal in her work is to look at highly nuanced affairs with love, empathy and without personal bias.
