EDUARDO TERRANOVA is a practicing artist and architect based in New York City. Born in Cali, Colombia, his childhood is filled with the iconography of the Catholic faith and the violence of civil conflict engendered by a sixty-year period of internecine war in his homeland. He is raised with his grandfather's stories of terror and recounting of the deaths and disappearance of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Subsequently, Terranova has his own personal encounters with the dark menace of political and military violence. At 19, he chooses to leave the country. The conflict continues.As a child, Eduardo stitches and builds kites and makes his own toys. Early ballet classes helped him develop a sense of space, of defying gravity and balance of bodies in motion. His passion for art expands. Soon, he feels the power and freedom of holding a pencil or brush; it is like dancing around the universe with his heart in his hands. His studies and travels bring a mature appreciation of dimensionality, textures and surfaces. He begins to draw on a magical realism created from the bringing together and rending apart of elements. The result is a unique aesthetic, bonded in the smelter of life experience and manifesting the enduring fountainhead of human dignity.

Terranova embarks on a series of paintings based on the "Disappeared and Vanished”, which memorialize and honor the victims of the conflict. That awakens in him a need to record other human tragedies. The processes he employs expose the political aspects of his works. Terranovaconstructs symbolic acts of memory and experience through cracks, tensions, tears, scratches, cuts and voids that signify the presence of those vanished or victimized. He employs coffee and wine as pigments in a diluted manner, creating a "stain” effect that may evoke dry blood or imply a former existence, erasures or disappeared signatures. More than anything else, these stains evoke the voices of those no longer present. His canvases reveal a transformation from surface to spatialcaused by the tensions and forces of the materials and the suspensions of the thread. As he plies his needle and thread,the "wounds" are sewn and drawn into scars, the scars become petrified, fossilized into memories. Throughthe persistence of culture and the evolving of its language from past to present, Terranova's works reverberate in a unique voice embracing and forming a collective memory.His works have been exhibitedin galleries and museums in solo and group shows throughout The United States,Italy, Spain,Austria, Swedenand Argentina. He holds a Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and Bachelor of Architecture from The New York Institute of Technology. EDUARDO TERRANOVA is a practicing artist and architect based in New York City. Born in Cali, Colombia, his childhood is filled with the iconography of the Catholic faith and the violence of civil conflict engendered by a sixty-year period of internecine war in his homeland. He is raised with his grandfather's stories of terror and recounting of the deaths and disappearance of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Subsequently, Terranova has his own personal encounters with the dark menace of political and military violence. At 19, he chooses to leave the country. The conflict continues.As a child, Eduardo stitches and builds kites and makes his own toys. Early ballet classes helped him develop a sense of space, of defying gravity and balance of bodies in motion. His passion for art expands. Soon, he feels the power and freedom of holding a pencil or brush; it is like dancing around the universe with his heart in his hands. His studies and travels bring a mature appreciation of dimensionality, textures and surfaces. He begins to draw on a magical realism created from the bringing together and rending apart of elements. The result is a unique aesthetic, bonded in the smelter of life experience and manifesting the enduring fountainhead of human dignity.

Terranova embarks on a series of paintings based on the "Disappeared and Vanished”, which memorialize and honor the victims of the conflict. That awakens in him a need to record other human tragedies. The processes he employs expose the political aspects of his works. Terranovaconstructs symbolic acts of memory and experience through cracks, tensions, tears, scratches, cuts and voids that signify the presence of those vanished or victimized. He employs coffee and wine as pigments in a diluted manner, creating a "stain” effect that may evoke dry blood or imply a former existence, erasures or disappeared signatures. More than anything else, these stains evoke the voices of those no longer present. His canvases reveal a transformation from surface to spatialcaused by the tensions and forces of the materials and the suspensions of the thread. As he plies his needle and thread,the "wounds" are sewn and drawn into scars, the scars become petrified, fossilized into memories. Throughthe persistence of culture and the evolving of its language from past to present, Terranova's works reverberate in a unique voice embracing and forming a collective memory.His works have been exhibitedin galleries and museums in solo and group shows throughout The United States,Italy, Spain,Austria, Swedenand Argentina. He holds a Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and Bachelor of Architecture from The New York Institute of Technology.