Claudia Echeverria/CLoD

I’m Claudia Echeverria, also known as CLoD—a Venezuelan-born artist living and working in New York. I was raised near the Venezuela-Colombia border, surrounded by the textures, rituals, and quiet strength of Wayuu culture. My work is rooted in emotion, memory, and the urge to make sense of what stirs inside me. I paint to understand. To sit with discomfort. To remember. To release. My style—TribalPop—blends ancestral symbolism with contemporary abstraction. It’s intuitive, layered, rhythmic. Some pieces arrive wild and raw; others, quiet and composed. I’m not after perfection, but I care deeply about precision—about listening closely to what wants to be seen. Before this, I lived many lives. I produced television. I traveled. I questioned everything. And somewhere along the way, painting found me—not as a career, but as a way to stay present, awake, and alive. More than a decade in, I’m still in awe of what reveals itself when I let go. My work lives in the in-between: joy and grief, shadow and light, memory and invention. If it stirs something in you, then we’ve already met.