CLAUDIA FUENTEALBA DINARDI

ARTIST BIO

Claudia Fuentealba is a multidisciplinary fiber and mixed-media artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Born to Chilean parents and raised between cultures, her practice explores themes of tension, displacement, and structural imbalance through tactile form. Working primarily with wool, rope, leather, and metal, Fuentealba constructs sculptural wall pieces that move between softness and resistance, blending traditional textile processes with architectural sensibility. Her ongoing series Escala examines weight, hierarchy, and emotional thresholds through layered surfaces that invite both intimacy and reflection. Influenced by memory, migration, and personal transformation, her work seeks to create quiet spaces where material becomes language. Fuentealba’s practice bridges craft and contemporary abstraction, emphasizing texture, vulnerability, and the expressive potential of fiber as a living structure.


ARTIST STATEMENT

I work through texture, contrast, color, and material tension to explore how structure and emotion coexist. Fiber allows me to build forms that hold memory — layered, imperfect, and quietly resistant. My process moves between intuition and architecture, allowing materials to guide composition while I respond to shifts in balance and weight. In the series Escala, I investigate themes of hierarchy, grounding, and transformation through surfaces that feel both fragile and strong. Each piece becomes a space of pause — an inner landscape shaped by personal history, cultural movement, and lived experience. Rather than seeking resolution, I embrace imbalance as a generative force, using fiber, rope, and metal to translate emotional thresholds into tactile form.