Vega grew up in Oaxaca, in a family of paper-makers and market vendors, surrounded by the layered visual noise of hand-painted signage, fabric off-cuts, and printed ephemera. That environment shaped her practice directly: she builds her paintings from torn paper, fabric scraps, and found print material, layering and painting over them so the collage elements peek through rather than dominate. Her compositions grow organically — she rarely starts with a plan, instead building outward from a single scrap that catches her eye, adding and covering over material until the piece feels resolved. She sees the hidden layers as part of the meaning, not just the process. "Half of what's in the painting, you'll never actually see," she says, "but I think you can still feel it's there."
Vega grew up in Oaxaca, in a family of paper-makers and market vendors, surrounded by the layered visual noise of hand-painted signage, fabric off-cuts, and printed ephemera. That environment shaped h...
