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. The pieces don’t follow an agenda. They come from an outpouring of feeling, from listening closely to what wants to be seen.

My life took many paths before settling into this one. I produced television. I traveled. I questioned everything. 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.