Teresita de la Torre

Through embroidered domestic artifacts, Mexican-born, Texas-raised artist Teresita de la Torre publicly invites viewers into a private conversation. Navigating the fraught waters of family, culture, tradition, and sexuality, de la Torre imbues common household items from her childhood with confessions and devotions of identity and heartbreak. Things left unsaid between the artist and her mother are literally sewn into the fabric of pillows, towels, tablecloths and other domestic items. Each declaration poetically subverts its object's function – washing one’s hands, sleeping and dreaming, keeping things clean – and reveals strategies for incorporating one’s true identity into the tightly-woven tapestries we are born into.

Teresita de la Torre was born in Guadalajara Jalisco, but grew up in the border city of Laredo Texas. She completed her Bachelors in Art from Texas A&M International, and her Masters in Fine Art from Califoe University Fullerton.