Anica Shpilberg is a Peruvian born Miami based artist. Anica started creating art at a very early age in her native Peru after her mother introduced her to handicrafts such as embroidery, knitting and sewing. She studied design, printmaking, at the Pratt Institute, mixed media and steel sculpture at the Silvermine School of Art in Connecticut, and later Photography at ICP in New York.
Her work is a combination of Expressionism, Constructivism and reflects the influence of some of the key figures of the 20th century. But her work is not simple to interpret, nor should it be taken literally. Instead, it must be discovered step by step by learning to read the myriad symbols in her paintings that she hides under layers of pigments and materials that metaphorically function like the strata of remembrances, which must be removed in order to uncover the intimate universe of each human being.
