Milenna Saraiva

A generation X’er who has defied the odds, Milenna C. Saraiva is a Brazilian visual artist with a studio in the metropolis of São Paulo. A graduate with a Fine Arts degree from Santa Monica College, in Los Angeles, Milenna apprenticed as a painter, under The Mentor Program to Linda Lopes, Nathan Ota, Mark Trujillo, Sharon Kagan and Ron Davis. In 2012 she earned a Post Graduation degree in contemporary painting at Sao Paulo’s University FAAP (Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado).

Milenna’s techniques have evolved from tightly wrought pencil drawings into looser, layered canvases of textured and richly hued imagery, integrated through quick, sometimes brutal splashes of the palette knife, and through blending, assembling, edging, detailing and scraping off painterly layers.Drawing upon raw emotion, she delves into her subconscious to harness and synthesize the process for recasting conventions of figurative and mural painting through a deliberate pursuit toward abstraction. Relying principally on the free-flowing processes of memory and creative imagination, Milenna eschews painting portraits to capture external likeness. She pursues, instead, the objective of creating a portal to the inner journey of self-exploration. Her curre...

2012 - Post Graduation Course : Contemporary Painting - FAAP - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil.

2003 - The Mentor Program, Santa Monica College, CA, USA.

1998 - BA Fine Arts - Santa Monica College, CA, USA.

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