Bio
Lupita Carrasco is an artist, wife, and mother of seven children. From 2002-2023 she was also the sole caregiver to her mother, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder. Born and raised in San Diego, California, her tumultuous childhood and vibrant Mexican culture lend their voice to her artistic language. Existential connectivity, intimate wonder, and belonging are familiar themes found in her paintings.
Lupita’s work revolves around survival. Allowing herself to break open in the most vulnerable of places, she explores how trauma affects self-worth, self-care, and the ability to love and nurture others. Family, friends, and the environment she is intimately acquainted with are at the heart of her work. She pairs images from hikes, interactions between her children, mothering activities, and places she longs to be, showing a perceived interpretation of the self, familial relationships, and the monotony of domestic obligations. Art is an avenue for processing her measure of the human condition.
Artist Statement
I paint what I know. Sometimes it involves communicating perceptions, relationships, and feelings too difficult for me to put into words. I'm inspired by depth, continuity, love, faith and multi-generational connections, the most meaningful things we have and sometimes what we lose.
There is a certain forgiveness of myself I must exercise each time I paint. Raising a large family means that painting sessions are reduced to blocks of time lasting an hour or less. Painting in this manner reflects my current life circumstances in hurried brushstrokes and imperfections that reveal my most authentic voice.
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Group Shows
2024 “Alhamdu Muslim Futurism” The Fine Arts Center Colorado Springs, CO
2024 “50% Of The Story Women Expressing Creativity” Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum permanent collection
2024 “We Are The Sky” with what kinda brown are you? GOCA at ENT Center For The Arts
2025 “Seeking Shelter” Pikes Peak State College, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 “What Kinda Brown Are You?” Disrupters Gallery,
2023 “Lillian Orlowskey and William Freed Grant Recipients Exhibit” Provincetown, MA
2021-2024. “Gratitude” Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2020 “I See London”, MODBO, Colorado Springs, CO
“Undivided”, Freedom Center (Natl. Underground Railroad Museum), Cincinnati, OH
2016 “Play Nice: The Conjoined Show”, SPQR, Colorado Springs, CO
“Victor Celebrates the Arts”, Plein Air Competition, Victor, CO
2015-2016 “Dia De Los Muertos”, AHA Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2015 “Lupita Carrasco and Jonathan Sulinski”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs CO
2011 “The Human Condition”, Studio 12 Gallery, Denver Colorado, CO
2003 “Local Artist”, Spotted Horse Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
Solo Shows
2024 “You Are Here” Surface Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 “Magnificent Wild” Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 “Expressions on Caring” Ent Center for The Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
2022 “Fragments of Eternity” Surface Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2021 “Motherhood Is Forever” Kreuser Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2020 “Hope Springs Eternal” G44 Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2019 “Oremus”, SPQR Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2018 “A Place For The Moon” SPQR gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
“Exploring Ancestry Through Textiles” Deco Lounge at the Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO and Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO
2017 “Dreamland”, The Gallery Below, Colorado Springs, CO
2016 “Paints Like a Girl”, The Modbo, Colorado Springs, CO
Awards
2022 Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region Art Vision Grant
2022 Lillian Orlowskey and William Freed Grant
2014 Best of Show, “The Contemporary Still Life Show”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
2010 Mayor’s Award, Colorado Springs Art Guild, Colorado Springs, CO
Juried Shows
2013-2017 “Small Works”, The Modbo, Colorado Springs, CO
2014 “The Pop Culture Show”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
“The Contemporary Still Life Show”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
“Small Works”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
Publications
2023 Milk Vol 3 Art Journal
2019 Poets and Artists Magazine, Adorn Me
2013 “Fire Fire Flood”, The Modbo, Colorado Springs, CO
2012 “The Courageous and Beautiful”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
2010-2012 “Dia De Los Muertos”, Cottonwood Center For the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO
2010 “Homo Reus Taboo”, Business of Art Center, Manitou Springs, CO
2009 “Nocturnal Mockery”, Cedars Jazz Club, Colorado Springs, CO
2007 “Dia De Los Muertos”, CHAC, Denver Colorado, CO
2004 Colorado Springs Arts Guild, Colorado Springs, CO