Growing up as a military child, Angelica Spurigo considers herself as from nowhere, yet everywhere. She lived in six different places including Belgium and attended nine different schools. Because she had to leave many friends and communities behind, she often wondered if there was something that would always stay with her, something that wouldn’t leave, so she looked inside herself and she found art.

When she lived in Belgium she was developing a passion for art that she wouldn’t pursue until she moved to California in 2006. When she became a high school junior, she didn‘t open her eyes to the art world, until she won a first place ribbon in the Vacaville Art contest and then a second place one in the Fairfield contest.

She then took advanced placement art in her high school senior year, where she created a twelve pieced portfolio of guitar themes, and experimented visually with my passion for music through symbolic motifs and surrealism. Among that concentration, my somewhat cubistic “Jungle Melody” became appealing to anyone who saw it. This piece expresses musical harmony with nature that a guitar is “in tuned” with.

In 2007, she suddenly became fascinated with color and geometrical forms after having an unexpected out of body experience. This phenomenal impact allowed her to strengthen her musical portfolio on guitars that she used to get accepted into the California College of the Arts, to major in painting and drawing. From there she developed different ways of creating colorful abstract compositions with a camera and her intuition. Her themes in this realm include concepts of space and time. After taking many studio courses including abstraction and color theory, she realized she needed to push further and address the darker aspects of life, by composing more personal themes and events from memory with a looser style, as well as the symbolical/surrealistic part of her intuition. Such examples demonstrate concepts of grief, disease, lust and other misfortunes that came with it.

Whether her artistic style is tight or loose, surrealistic or abstract, geometrical or symbolical, or just all the above, she found her style to be many styles just as her experiences hold many feelings and many approaches to those feelings. If she had to define her style at this point, She’d say it is dramatic and colorful. She doesn’t go searching for a style because one day it will find her and organize all these feelings and events into something she can call her own.