ABOUT ME
I’m Cristina “Cris” Bozas, a contemporary abstract artist originally from Caracas, Venezuela. After moving to the U.S. in 1998, I’ve been based in Massachusetts since 2012. Raised in a creative family of craft artists, architects, and marketers, I developed an early appreciation for aesthetics, storytelling, and the emotional power of visual language.
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I’m also a proud and happy mother of two, and I’m deeply grateful for the love and support of my husband, who has stood beside me as I’ve grown both creatively and professionally. Family, movement, and life’s everyday rhythms have shaped the way I see beauty—often inspiring the calm, energy, and emotion that live within my work.
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With a background in graphic design and more than 20 years working in marketing and creative direction, I bring a strong sense of composition, intention, and craftsmanship to my studio practice. Over the years, painting became my personal anchor—a space where emotion, memory, and imagination could take shape beyond words. Today, I create acrylic abstract paintings that explore the space between stillness and intensity: the quiet calm of open horizons and the vibrant force of human emotion.​
My process begins with clarity and vision. I start each piece with a sketch and thoughtfully select a palette designed to evoke a specific emotional tone—serenity, joy, longing, desire, or energy in motion. From there, I build the surface through layered acrylics and my signature piping technique, applying thick, sculptural threads of paint that rise, spill, and flow beyond the canvas edges. These dimensional lines create rhythm and movement, giving each painting a sense of expansion—like emotion reaching outward.
Texture is central to my work because I strive to create a more complete, sensorial experience than simply viewing a painting from a distance. My surfaces invite the viewer to slow down, move closer, and connect through light, movement, and feeling—discovering their own meaning within the language of abstraction.
My collections reflect two emotional worlds: Horizons, rooted in calm and space, and Bright, shaped by the intensity of lived experience. My work has been exhibited in group shows and art events, and most recently I presented my work at Spectrum Miami 2025, an energizing milestone that deepened my connection to the broader contemporary art community and reinforced my commitment to building work that feels alive, expressive, and deeply human.