A pair of elongated hands meet mid-stride, fingers interlacing as if testing the weight of trust. Elsewhere, a body fragments into lilac and rose, its limbs multiplying, slipping between states of concealment and display. In another work, figures fold into one another—stitched, layered, inseparable—while a shadow lingers close, not as absence but as a quiet companion. These are not painted illusions but constructed presences: hand-dyed, screen-printed, cut and sewn into plush, tactile form.
Such is the language of Maria A. Guzmán Capron, whose figurative textiles occupy a charged space between image and object, surface and structure. Her works insist on touch—not only as subject but as method. Cotton and silk, pigment and thread, are handled, manipulated and re-authored into dense, sensuous compositions. The result is a body of work that feels intimate yet expansive, rooted in materiality while reaching toward something more elusive: the unstable, layered nature of identity itself.
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Image credit: Maria A. Guzmán Capron. “Algo Escondido,” 2025. Hand dyed and screen printed fabric, thread and batting, 68 1/2 x 58 1/2 in. Courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio.