Raised in Las Vegas, NV, neon lights have been a part of Leticia Maldonado’s visual vocabulary from the most impressionable of ages. Working in the medium for the past four years, Leticia was taught tube bending and bombarding from Michael Flechtner, and before that design and fabrication by Lili Lakich, two of the neon community’s premier and innovative artists. Heavily influenced by the elegant bravado of graffiti, the super energetic independence of punk rock, and the special space-time visual beauty of comic books, Leticia uses neon and tube bending to explore botanical forms and symbols of personal power. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.