Alessandra Gutierrez
Multidisciplinary artist and creative producer working in textile, paper, flowers, interiors, and visual storytelling.
Papel Memoria
Papel Memoria is a memorial archive honoring individuals affected by immigration enforcement, detention, and systemic violence by preserving their stories through papel picado portraits that are free to download and use for vigils, memorials, and community gatherings.
This work emerges from an ongoing exploration of how the body holds memory, solitude, and tenderness. In this piece, a bedroom scene is interrupted by an oversized bird that takes shape in dense embroidery, its mass conveying both weight and softness. The figure’s posture and the tactile quality of the embroidery hint at exhaustion, surrender, and the comfort of being enveloped.
16” X 20”
Thread on Linen, 2025
Framed in a White Oak floating frame
Current Work
Current Work
From a distance, they can look like drawings. Up close, the lines reveal themselves as thread. Each image is built stitch by stitch on a sewing machine. Explore the collection to see how thread becomes line, texture, and story.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:
LOOM Gatherings are creative workshops for women built around what we can make possible for one another. Bring something you want help with, learn to put it into clear words, and discover the magic that happens when we get together.
The next LOOM Gathering is taking shape.
The first gathering filled the room with ideas, introductions, laughter and the kind of connections that kept unfolding long after the evening ended.
If you would like to be in the room next time, join the waitlist. You will be the first to hear when the next gathering is announced.
And if you would like to host a private LOOM Gathering for friends, family or a group of your own, you can tell me that too when you join the list.
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Questions, commissions, collaborations, and contributions to Papel Memoria are all welcome here.