Anita brings her passion to a wide range of themes. Everything is rendered in intense color and permeated with an atmosphere of magic.  Her Chicana and Mexican roots emerge in her fascination with the saints, the history of the Crypto-Jews, and “stories” from popular tradition.

She reveals interest in Jungian psychology, the Tarot, she loves low riders, and she paints animals from tigers to monkeys to iguanas, often including her dog along with neighbors and friends.  Sometimes a wall dissolves into jungle, or doors in a landscape open to improbable rooms.  She mingles architectural time with geologic time, the past with the present.

If there is one single, striking motif in Anita’s work, it is the skeleton.  “I know it has to do with my death experience.  After it happened, I experienced life as eternal and became a painter.”

“For me it is a spiritual practice.  There are people in Mexico who believe that if you reach out your left arm you’ll touch your personal death – it’s there, all throughout your life.”

“It can be your teacher.  Your death can teach you to enjoy life more, to treasure the ones you love, to remember to say “I love you”, to appreciate every sunset, glass of water, to forgive and above all – it can teach you to lose your fear of death.”