Knitting the Wind

María Berrío was born and raised in Colombia, came to New York City for college, and is now based in Brooklyn. In her paintings, one of which this print reproduces, Berrío uses watercolor paint and Japanese paper made especially for her. She tears the paper into strips and collages them into color-saturated images, often featuring women, as here. Berrío creates with her own narrative in mind but aims to inspire her audience. In a 2023 interview, referring to a recent series of paintings, she said, “… this is the highest praise I could receive, to learn that my storytelling allows a space for the stories of others.”