Regina Gutierrez is a queer sculptor and visual artist from New York with a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their work draws upon ache as a daydream, and moments when the multiplicity of their queer body lays the foreground for understanding familial landscapes.
Exploring the intersection of Filipino physiognomy and intergenerational trauma, they center the mouth as a physical manifestation of assimilation. Shifting scales from precious metals tediously fit to the mouth, to immersive and modular murals, their work demands all the body may have left to give. Spread between re-orientations, spit, or obsessively iterative forms, Regina’s work underscores the significance of unconscious tensions in shaping personal and collective memory. Their narrative provides a framework for exploring identity, one that resists linear storytelling and embraces abstraction as a means of protection.
In their work, Regina embraces the Queer Filipinx-American experience. They aim to create a vantage point for understanding the complex dynamics of family, trauma, and resilience. Their art maps the past hidden in the present, providing a space for mediation in cultural memory, and catharsis as a method for re-embodiment.