By age 13 she began taking free classes at the Academia de Bellas Artes.

[4] She was active in painting, printmaking, and collage, and in 1991 the National Art Gallery in Caracas held an exhibition to review her work from 1941 to 1991.

[5] She died on March 24, 2005, in San Antonio de Los Altos, Venezuela.

It is located at Alejandro Otero and Mercedes Pardo's house in San Antonio de Los Altos.

[9] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.