Connie Martin Trevino is a ceramicist, photographer and collage artist who was born on Chicago’s south side. Her interest in art started at an early age after receiving her first professional camera in High school. Connie has developed her personal style over 20+ years while living in cities like Chicago, Washington, DC And Los Angeles.
Her focus has been documenting moments and experiences such as morning dew on a spiders web, nudes, portraits to protest. through her photography and Abstracting the human figure she started working on paper collages which led to creating her hybrid creatures. With The introduction of clay handbuilding became an obsession and a way to bring the paper to life. Her ceramic sculptures bridges her artistic passions and also creates a path which hopefully leads to expanding and engaging people in a dialogue about observations of the world or other possible worlds that could exist. Connie is inspired by nature and is Continually focusing on things big and small the micro and the macro and the possibilities that these creatures can live together anywhere and everywhere.