Featured artist
Silvia Rojas
California, USA
Specialty Categories
Mixed Media
Sueno de Verano, mixed media, 54"x42"
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Homenaje A Jorge Riveros, mixed media, 54"x42"
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Water Lights, mixed media, 54"x42"
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Artist Statement/Bio
"There is always a motivation, a feeling and a purpose. An unfinished profound desire that impulses me to recreate forms, colors and textures. I wish that my artistic proposal be a reflection of my seeking, the imaginative effort developed through the execution of every work, where the ideas convert themselves into forms that become richer and richer, with the contribution of the fantasy and the strength of my thoughts.
Abstraction, by the words of world famous painter Joaquin Torres Garcia, “ pretend to introduce you into the world of geometry, rhythm, the music of the tones and the harmony of forms, lights and shadows, the real and the unreal, it transport you to the aesthetic level where every rumor of the known world cease. “
This is also my artistic sentiment. My art is a step from the real into the unreal world, perhaps a metamorphosis between level of conscience or also a journey from the subtle mind to the real world of primary senses. The moon for example, to me has a very special energy that fills me with its vitality, peace and romanticism. Other elements like shapes, spheres, lines textures and colors are a well thought excuse to bring to the viewer all kind of feelings where my message is one of emotions, a game of aesthetic elements that transform themselves from the intangible reality of my thoughts, into the tangible unreality of the forms."
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Silvia Rojas is devoted completely to her art. She studied at the National University of Colombia School of Fine Arts, where she obtained a degree of Master Painter. She had begun collecting awards while a student with her first Honorable Mention at the Salon de Arte Universitario, held at Fray Angelico Gallery in Bogota, 1978; also an Honorable mention at The Contemporary Museum of Art “ XIV Salon Nacional de Agosto 1980 “; A second prize with her project for a mural painting for the Military University of Bogota 1981; in1987 she received an Honorable Mention at the Art Contemporain at Hautefeuille Gallery in Paris, France.
Her solo shows include exhibitions in Blue Bird Art House in Whittier CA.
Her collective shows include exhibitions such as: First Art Fair, International Exposition Fair, Bogota, 1978; 176 New Masters of Colombia, at the Luis Angel Arango Library Gallery, Bogota, 1978; The XII August International Salon at the Contemporary Museum of Art, Bogota 1978; The first exhibition of the Engraving Atelier held at the National University Museum of Art, Bogota 1979;First Bienal of Art Of Candelaria, Gilberto Alzate Avendano Foundation, Bogota 1980; The second exhibition of the Engraving Atelier at the National University Museum of Art, Bogota 1981; Mural project contest organized by the Military University of Bogotá , 1981; “ Confrontacion “ a mural in the mosaic technique, National University of Colombia Museum of Art, Bogota 1982; A group collaboration for a mural painting by a teacher and his students at the Atelier of artist Armando Villegas, by Peruvian artist Mauro Rodriguez, Bogota 1982; Art for everybody, Unicentro Bogota 1983; Onate Art Gallery, Miami 1984; Sister Cities Program art Exhibition at the Colombian Consulate, Coral Gables 1986; XX Prix International D’Art du Monte Carlo, Monaco 1986; Art Contemporain, Hautefeuille Gallery, Paris France 1987; Elite Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida 1987; Tatem Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL 1987; Grand Prix D’Aquitane 88, Tonneins France 1988; Prouds Gallery, Sidney Australia, 1995; International Miniature Show, Sea Side Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC, 1995; Exploring the North, A traveling exhibition of 10 Colombian Artist living in the U.S. held at the Stendhall Gallery in New York N. Y.; The Colombian American Center in Bogota and The Bolivariano Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Marta, Colombia 1996. Blue Bird House, Whittier, CA 2010; Fremont Gallery. Pasadena, CA 2012. Raices Latinoamericanas. Celebrity Center. Hollywood, CA.
Her work have been reproduced in selected art magazines and publications and reviewed by authoritative critics in Bogota, New York, and Miami.
"There is always a motivation, a feeling and a purpose. An unfinished profound desire that impulses me to recreate forms, colors and textures. I wish that my artistic proposal be a reflection of my seeking, the imaginative effort developed through the execution of every work, where the ideas convert themselves into forms that become richer and richer, with the contribution of the fantasy and the strength of my thoughts.
Abstraction, by the words of world famous painter Joaquin Torres Garcia, “ pretend to introduce you into the world of geometry, rhythm, the music of the tones and the harmony of forms, lights and shadows, the real and the unreal, it transport you to the aesthetic level where every rumor of the known world cease. “
This is also my artistic sentiment. My art is a step from the real into the unreal world, perhaps a metamorphosis between level of conscience or also a journey from the subtle mind to the real world of primary senses. The moon for example, to me has a very special energy that fills me with its vitality, peace and romanticism. Other elements like shapes, spheres, lines textures and colors are a well thought excuse to bring to the viewer all kind of feelings where my message is one of emotions, a game of aesthetic elements that transform themselves from the intangible reality of my thoughts, into the tangible unreality of the forms."
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Silvia Rojas is devoted completely to her art. She studied at the National University of Colombia School of Fine Arts, where she obtained a degree of Master Painter. She had begun collecting awards while a student with her first Honorable Mention at the Salon de Arte Universitario, held at Fray Angelico Gallery in Bogota, 1978; also an Honorable mention at The Contemporary Museum of Art “ XIV Salon Nacional de Agosto 1980 “; A second prize with her project for a mural painting for the Military University of Bogota 1981; in1987 she received an Honorable Mention at the Art Contemporain at Hautefeuille Gallery in Paris, France.
Her solo shows include exhibitions in Blue Bird Art House in Whittier CA.
Her collective shows include exhibitions such as: First Art Fair, International Exposition Fair, Bogota, 1978; 176 New Masters of Colombia, at the Luis Angel Arango Library Gallery, Bogota, 1978; The XII August International Salon at the Contemporary Museum of Art, Bogota 1978; The first exhibition of the Engraving Atelier held at the National University Museum of Art, Bogota 1979;First Bienal of Art Of Candelaria, Gilberto Alzate Avendano Foundation, Bogota 1980; The second exhibition of the Engraving Atelier at the National University Museum of Art, Bogota 1981; Mural project contest organized by the Military University of Bogotá , 1981; “ Confrontacion “ a mural in the mosaic technique, National University of Colombia Museum of Art, Bogota 1982; A group collaboration for a mural painting by a teacher and his students at the Atelier of artist Armando Villegas, by Peruvian artist Mauro Rodriguez, Bogota 1982; Art for everybody, Unicentro Bogota 1983; Onate Art Gallery, Miami 1984; Sister Cities Program art Exhibition at the Colombian Consulate, Coral Gables 1986; XX Prix International D’Art du Monte Carlo, Monaco 1986; Art Contemporain, Hautefeuille Gallery, Paris France 1987; Elite Fine Art Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida 1987; Tatem Gallery, Fort Lauderdale FL 1987; Grand Prix D’Aquitane 88, Tonneins France 1988; Prouds Gallery, Sidney Australia, 1995; International Miniature Show, Sea Side Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC, 1995; Exploring the North, A traveling exhibition of 10 Colombian Artist living in the U.S. held at the Stendhall Gallery in New York N. Y.; The Colombian American Center in Bogota and The Bolivariano Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Marta, Colombia 1996. Blue Bird House, Whittier, CA 2010; Fremont Gallery. Pasadena, CA 2012. Raices Latinoamericanas. Celebrity Center. Hollywood, CA.
Her work have been reproduced in selected art magazines and publications and reviewed by authoritative critics in Bogota, New York, and Miami.
