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Artist Statement

Angie Mueller investigates how we construct memory and what happens when machines begin to remember for us. Her research grows out of a search for her roots: her childhood diaries, her family tree, and the stories of the women in her family who worked in textile factories in the Colombian Caribbean. Through drawing and painting, she explores clothing as an archive of identity, labor, and women’s experiences.

Her practice places the trace of the hand and the time of painting in tension with new technologies. By transforming her images into animations and interactive environments, she examines what is preserved, lost, or altered when a memory becomes digital information.

This inquiry takes form in The Wall, a system in development that invites others to share memories of the places they come from. Across drawing, painting, and digital media, Mueller explores remembering as a form of resistance: maintaining a personal relationship with the past in a world that increasingly entrusts its memory to machines.

Now on View

Nuevos Horizontes, Angie Rangel, 2026 — Oil on canvas, 20 × 20 cm. Exhibited at The MEAM Hall, MEAM Barcelona

"The MEAM Hall: 8th edition" is open now in Barcelona. The MEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) presents it as its small-format collective exhibition — "the largest showcase of contemporary figurative art in small format." Organized by the Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes, this edition brings together 161 selected artists in 20 × 20 cm format, exhibited in the museum's main hall. Rangel participates with "Nuevos Horizontes" (oil on canvas, 20 × 20 cm).

· MEAM, Barcelona — July 10 to November 1, 2026 (opening and certificate ceremony: July 10).
· La Zona Gallery, Madrid — November 12 to 29, 2026.

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Across the Americas — Presented by Uncool Gallery on Artsy

TAXONOMY
OF MEMORY

2025

Text by Uncool Gallery

Angie Rangel’s Taxonomy of Memory series develops from garments associated with childhood and family memory. Taxonomy of Memory: Soft Gradients and Near Abstraction from the “Taxonomy of Memory” Series transform these sources through drawing, allowing domestic objects to become carriers of cultural experience.

— Uncool Gallery, Across the Americas, Artsy, 2026
In the studio

Across the Americas

September 22 – October 19, 2026

Across the Americas brings together ten works by Dante Migone-Ojeda, Nelmir Guzman, Angie Rangel, Hannah Banciella, and Marco Caridad. The exhibition considers how cultural memory travels across generations and geography, taking new form through contemporary artistic practice.

Works in the exhibition

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UNCOOL ARTIST
RESIDENCY

Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, 2025

My residency at Uncool Artist, based at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was transformative on both a personal and artistic level. During this period, I became deeply aware of new ethical frameworks in contemporary art production, and more importantly, of how my work is understood within a global context.

During the final quarter of the fall–winter season, I developed a series of watercolors based on the textiles used in my childhood dresses from the late 20th century. These works function as a subtle, almost forensic reading of those garments: their materials, their use, and their journey.

This body of work combines symbols with strong traditional significance with individual human gestures. During the open studios at Uncool Gallery and the final presentation, the drawings activated a process of reconstructing past narratives.

"Her paintings act like an archive of personal experiences, memories, and desires. Rangel blends elements of folklore, art history, and family narrative to construct compositions rich with her own lore, welcoming viewers into the period rooms of her mind which encourage us all to reflect on our own constellations of personal inspirations."

— Julian J. Howard, Curator

Selected Works

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The Wait — Mixed media on canvas
The Wait Mixed media, 100 × 100 cm
White Dress with Botanical Patterns — Oil on canvas
White Dress with Botanical Patterns Oil on canvas, 150 × 150 cm
Immersive Virtual Gallery Click to enter the immersive experience Inside the paintings Walk through a painted world · Desktop, touch & VR

Encounters (Encuentros)

There is a Greek myth that places the origin of painting in the hands of a woman. In Pliny the Elder's Natural History, there is an account about the origin of painting in which a maiden named Kora traces the outline of her lover's shadow before he leaves for war. Whether the myth is true or only legend, what is undeniable is that painting has always been a worker of memory, helping preserve what we consider of great value. Vincent wanted to preserve his boots, Séraphine Louis wanted to preserve her flowers, and Modigliani his beloved women.

Angie Rangel, who begins her path in art through painting, integrates it into her daily life, studies it, and approaches its enigmas in order to crystallize, through it, the moments that have marked her process as an artist and as a woman who has traveled through different places, among them her city of origin, Barranquilla. Thus, in her proposal we see a mixture of dreams and realities that highlight the architectures and ornaments of her former homes, evoking life alongside her grandmother, her childhood, the warm climate, and that Macondo-like atmosphere that merges with a new way of life through art, where unsettling pieces appear that evoke Jeff Koons or Botero, hinting at her arrival in the city of Medellín. It is precisely this that conjures the encounters that run through her life and her work, and that, like a "diary," she records in words on the back of her paintings, so that each experience remains contained in both text and image, fulfilling the full sense of evocation.

There is also, in her work, a special fondness for paintings of women. Another latent encounter with her femininity, with her ideals and with other women, where she explores with them her delight in clothing, attire, and the fusion between painting and fashion, reminding us of the exuberant stage costumes portrayed by painters of past centuries, dressing them in garments full of flowers, textures, ruffles, and, once again, memories. These encounters are the meaning of this exhibition, and they are the becoming of her life as an artist and as a woman in a city that inspires movement, femininity, and art.

— Úrsula Ochoa, Master in Aesthetics, Art curator and critic
Angie Rangel

ANGIE RANGEL

Angie Mueller, born Angie del Carmen Rangel Peñaloza in Barranquilla, Colombia, is a visual artist whose work is also presented under the name Angie Rangel. Based between the San Francisco Bay Area and Colombia, she brings painting, textiles, and digital media together to create new forms of storytelling.

With a background in Fine Arts, Rangel draws on family memory and the Colombian Caribbean to construct alternative universes where the body, clothing, and hybrid creatures become expressions of identity and transformation.

MONUMENTAL
SCULPTURE

Conceptual prototype for a monumental sculpture: a crocodile with monarch butterfly wings. A study in magical realism, cultural memory, and the intersection of Caribbean mythology with contemporary sculptural practice.

3D render of crocodile with butterfly wings sculpture

Digital Explorations · Selected Works

CAIMAN FLIGHT
SELECTED VARIATIONS

Rangel brings the discipline of traditional painting into dialogue with animation and generative technologies, preserving the authority of the handmade mark while opening new visual landscapes of movement, memory, and migration. Developed in California from a Colombian perspective, this research positions her practice at a pioneering intersection of Latin American painting and emerging media.

Works
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Colombia

Generative moving image · 5 sec · 1:1 · 2026

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Seated Woman

Generative moving image · 5 sec · 1:1 · 2026

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Yellow Dress with Botanical Patterns

Generative moving image · 5 sec · 1:1 · 2026

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White Dress with Botanical Patterns

Generative moving image · 5 sec · 1:1 · 2026

Exhibitions

081 Gallery
2025 El Retiro, Antioquia

081 Gallery

Encuentros
2024 Medellín, Colombia

Encuentros

Bolero de Ravel
2023 Barranquilla, Colombia

Bolero de Ravel

Esencia Caribe
2018 Museo del Atlántico

Esencia Caribe

News

Angie Rangel presenting her artworks and Leave a Memory activation at the 2026 Colombian Independence celebration in San Francisco
San Francisco · July 26, 2026

Art, memory, and migration at Colombia's Independence celebration

Angie Rangel presented Leave a Memory during Colombia's Independence celebration in San Francisco, with the participation of Sonia Marina Pereira Portilla, Consul General of Colombia. Through the artwork and a public invitation to leave a personal memory, Rangel brought her research on memory and migration into a collective setting—strengthening the institutional visibility and community impact of her practice.

Angie Rangel with her work at Colombia’s Independence celebration in San Francisco.

Angie Rangel at Murano glassmaking workshop

Angie Rangel during a glassmaking workshop at Mazzega Murano Glass Factory, Murano Island, Venice. February 2026.

The MEAM Hall opening night — gallery wall with 20 × 20 cm works at MEAM, Barcelona, including Nuevos Horizontes by Angie Rangel

Barcelona, July 10, 2026 — Opening night of "The MEAM Hall: 8th edition" at the Museu Europeu d'Art Modern. 161 works in 20 × 20 cm format fill the museum's main hall; Rangel's "Nuevos Horizontes" is among the selected pieces. On view through November 1, then at La Zona Gallery, Madrid.

Photography: Natalia Correa, director of DATARTE — The MEAM Hall opening night

Encuentro DATARTE

Encuentro DATARTE at Sala de Arte Bancolombia, Bogotá, Colombia. January 2026.

THE IMMERSIVE
ROOM

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The Immersive Room

The Immersive Room is born in the California Bay Area — the place where the technology that redefines how the world sees is invented. Here, where the algorithms are written, Rangel proposes stepping inside the painting: a dark gallery of ten-meter walls where her oils — surreal interiors, botanical dresses, gold against ultramarine blue — are projected floor to ceiling and flow like a slow river, dissolving into one another without cuts. Monarch-winged caimans lift off the canvas and the room travels into open space: ringed planets, a golden city on the Moon. No screen, no frame: the visitor stands inside the work. That is ultra-contemporary — the painter's hand and generative processes in a single experience you inhabit, not observe.