
Jacqueline Cristina
Surrealist Painter
Having graduated from the New York Academy of Art, Jacqueline thought they had found the escape from the suburb dream. Yet only to have found themselves in yet another dream for the next 4 years. Raised in rural America, the ideologies and religious fervor that comes from an immigrant family from Romania, reality was set to be one certain way. To join in the American way. The first instinct was to pursue the self and rebel, yet destiny had its way, and the need for security called stronger. Yet this cure for the modern ache of emptiness came, the constant hunger for something more: more things, more experiences, more chemicals. The modern life stopped working and they left their corporate job, the one thing that promised to solve all problems. Yet it only made the need for truth stronger. This opened a path toward depicting emotional purification, spiritual awakening, and the search for ultimate truth. Through daily meditation and dreamwork, they began crafting pieces that feel more than just self-expression, going beyond to transmissions, letting Spirit speak. Now, they travel the world, searching for and studying classical depictions of divinity while also asking strangers how they know their own souls. These conversations enter their dreams with what they learn from sacred sites, thus becoming raw material for art. Each morning, these encounters are translated into sketches and paintings, turning into visual scriptures of longing, revelation, and the beauty of becoming. Their practice asks: Where is "God" (or our soul) hiding in our pain? How can art become a portal to the divine? How can this help the viewer reach enlightenment and understanding? This project has led them to seek new environments that foster dialogue, experimentation, and cross-cultural exchange. For to remember is to know.


