My textile paintings are centered around gradient linocuts of native plants and the natural terrain of my birthplace in the Caribbean sea and of my adopted home in the American South. I use various methods like stain painting and dyeing canvas, hand embroidering cutouts of printed linocut images, to portray the rich biodiversity of plants endemic to Puerto Rico and Tennessee. As an artist living in the diaspora - I represent ideas of transition, environmental impacts and impose healing through bursts of deep colors, vibrant organic forms, and stylized landscapes. I bring these themes into my work, making my home island important to discuss.
Yanira Vissepo is a Puerto Rican artist living and working in Nashville, TN. She is a self taught artist creating vibrant collaged textile paintings using techniques such as, stain painting, printmaking, cyanotype, dye resists, and hand embroidery. Vissepo’s work is ever evolving and she enjoys expanding her horizons by not restricting herself to a specific medium. Her work is heavily influenced by her experience of living in the Puerto Rican diaspora and examines the ecosystem of her culture through the natural world. .
Vissepo has shown regionally at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, Lipscomb University, ZieherSmith Gallery, 21c Museum, Open Gallery, and has had solo shows at Sheet Cake Gallery, Elephant Gallery, The Electric Shed, Fort Houston and Coop Gallery. In 2019 she studied traditional woodblock printmaking at The International School of Mokuhanga, Japan. Vissepo has taught at the Frist Museum and the Nashville Public Library.
