Intentionally Left Blank marks both a culmination and a beginning for Ana Llorente, a Cuban-Venezuelan artist, graphic designer, and educator who has made her creative home in rural Mendocino County, California.

 

The work in this exhibition outwardly addresses ways to preserve and elevate the ephemeral and everyday: objects otherwise regarded as impermanent are given new life through paper and clay. But at its core, each piece is informed by and crafted to hold Ana’s personal and professional experiences as well as observations of her current home in Ukiah, CA. The work asks: how can the overlooked be remembered, recognized, and preserved? Should the notion of built-in obsolescence become a thing of the past? Can the intrinsic nature of a material be challenged and reversed? Is there potential for lyricism in the functional, disposable, or forgotten? 

 

The work delights in playfulness, chasing moments of joy and weaving humor through words and language. Design, typography, and storytelling intertwine, as each piece revels in upending and reimagining the very nature of its materials.