"Lillith Rests" by Camilo Carreno Gonzalez
Graphite on Paper
5’’ by 6.5’’ unframed, 8’’ by 10’’ framed
I’m a Colombian-born artist living and working in Chicago since 2015. My work draws from personal memory, emotional states, and the soft-spoken weight of being an immigrant navigating the liminal space where identity and daily life blur and you become a ghost that is trapped in between worlds, where you feel that you belong and don't belong at the same time. I approach my work as a way to hold contradictions: tenderness and anxiety, stillness and fragmentation. I’m interested in what happens when something feels both familiar and unsettling, like a figure that’s almost disappearing, or a space that looks safe but isn’t. Working small lets me lean into that intimacy and ambiguity. These drawings invite a closer look, not to explain, but to offer a moment of quiet attention. Many of my pieces carry autobiographical traces, but I try not to spell things out. Instead, I leave room for distortion, erosion, and time to show up in the work. What’s left unsaid, what disappears, is often just as important as what remains.
Graphite on Paper
5’’ by 6.5’’ unframed, 8’’ by 10’’ framed
I’m a Colombian-born artist living and working in Chicago since 2015. My work draws from personal memory, emotional states, and the soft-spoken weight of being an immigrant navigating the liminal space where identity and daily life blur and you become a ghost that is trapped in between worlds, where you feel that you belong and don't belong at the same time. I approach my work as a way to hold contradictions: tenderness and anxiety, stillness and fragmentation. I’m interested in what happens when something feels both familiar and unsettling, like a figure that’s almost disappearing, or a space that looks safe but isn’t. Working small lets me lean into that intimacy and ambiguity. These drawings invite a closer look, not to explain, but to offer a moment of quiet attention. Many of my pieces carry autobiographical traces, but I try not to spell things out. Instead, I leave room for distortion, erosion, and time to show up in the work. What’s left unsaid, what disappears, is often just as important as what remains.
Graphite on Paper
5’’ by 6.5’’ unframed, 8’’ by 10’’ framed
I’m a Colombian-born artist living and working in Chicago since 2015. My work draws from personal memory, emotional states, and the soft-spoken weight of being an immigrant navigating the liminal space where identity and daily life blur and you become a ghost that is trapped in between worlds, where you feel that you belong and don't belong at the same time. I approach my work as a way to hold contradictions: tenderness and anxiety, stillness and fragmentation. I’m interested in what happens when something feels both familiar and unsettling, like a figure that’s almost disappearing, or a space that looks safe but isn’t. Working small lets me lean into that intimacy and ambiguity. These drawings invite a closer look, not to explain, but to offer a moment of quiet attention. Many of my pieces carry autobiographical traces, but I try not to spell things out. Instead, I leave room for distortion, erosion, and time to show up in the work. What’s left unsaid, what disappears, is often just as important as what remains.