Yelitza Diaz, a Venezuelan sculptor residing in South Carolina, USA. She started her artistic career from a very young age, allowing her to participate in countless exhibitions and art contests, where she was awarded with important awards and recognitions in Venezuela and the United States of America; She graduated in Fine Arts from the “Arturo Michelena Fine Art School” at Valencia-Venezuela, 1991-1995; At the same time, she worked as an arts teacher in the Ministry of Education of Cojedes, in the National Council of Culture-Caracas, and the Mayor’s Office of Tinaquillo-Cojedes, 1991-2005.
After graduation in Fine Arts, she left apart her paintings to take seriously the sculpture, and the mixed media techniques. Among her most used materials, ceramics, wood, metal, and resin; that has made it easier for her to carry out large format works for public arts.
The Little Human Being, universal man, protagonist as always in my art: reflects hidden feelings, confinement, waiting in time, loneliness, and elevation both physically and spiritually. From the years I have lived in America, I have realized that some people find it taboo to see the genitalia in sculptures of art, I have come to a point that I do not add genitals in my works anymore. I also started to see my works to be beyond the human body and more of a conceptual matter, I want to show the language that the human body of my sculptures portrays. I would like my works to express feelings, without having a face or genitals as a distraction. The intention is to portray my little beings as universal men, without any labels that today’s society has created.