Art is like a little piece of the artist’s heart

Angela Bortone is a half Dominican, half Italian, grown up army brat who spent her formative years abroad in Heidelberg Germany. Like her art, her identity is split. American in many ways, but not entirely.

She approaches her portraiture as an act of reconciliation. It’s an attempt to merge the two selves into one, the interior self and the exterior self -- the self you see everyday against the face you only see through a mirror or lens.