My work emerges from the terrain of preverbal memory and anamnesis—an embodied remembering of what was known before language. It is concerned with interiority, with how memory stirs within the body and surfaces not as story but as residue, atmosphere, fragment. Forms arrive as thresholds: sometimes as hollows or vessels that enclose and hold, sometimes as eruptions that tear or root outward. They hover between containment and dissolution, illumination and obscurity, gestation and breaking-through.
These works are not abstractions but somatic impressions, the body remembering itself in dialogue with matter. In paint, memory disperses as glow, blur, and atmosphere; in clay, it gathers as weight, rupture, and fold. Each medium enacts memory’s own logic of becoming—as pulse, as fragment, as flicker of recognition.
Memory does not belong to one body or one moment. It moves between surfaces, atmospheres, and times, returning as sensation rather than story. My work makes space for these brief passages of recognition, where what was hidden becomes momentarily visible.
Bio
Shaina Rico is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA in sculpture from New York University in 2011. Her practice spans oil painting, ceramics, and writing, exploring themes of embodiment, memory, and inner landscape.
These works are not abstractions but somatic impressions, the body remembering itself in dialogue with matter. In paint, memory disperses as glow, blur, and atmosphere; in clay, it gathers as weight, rupture, and fold. Each medium enacts memory’s own logic of becoming—as pulse, as fragment, as flicker of recognition.
Memory does not belong to one body or one moment. It moves between surfaces, atmospheres, and times, returning as sensation rather than story. My work makes space for these brief passages of recognition, where what was hidden becomes momentarily visible.
Bio
Shaina Rico is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA in sculpture from New York University in 2011. Her practice spans oil painting, ceramics, and writing, exploring themes of embodiment, memory, and inner landscape.