Her paintings... note with tenderness the way even the poorest Mexicans
beautify their surroundings with improvised decorations, such as vases made out of
Coke bottles wrapped in used gift paper or old cans recycled as flower pots.
...The Mexican-born daughter of two non-Mexican parents, Climent has the sharpened
perceptions of an outsider. For the last four years she has lived in New York.
Although she may claim to reject nostalgia, her work's emotional intensity has as
much to do with memory as with immediate sensation; she is impelled in part by
a sense of separation and longing.
Hayden Herrera, Art in America, 1992
|
