{"title":"MariaTeresa Ortiz-Naretto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/mariateresa-ortiz-naretto\/mariateresa-ortiz-naretto-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold wax and oil are the main techniques that Ortiz-Naretto utilizes in her artworks. Either on canvas or on paper, the matter appears in a textured movement of strokes, swirls, and lumps that deliver themselves like bas-reliefs on the shallow surfaces. The texture and colorful palette surrender to figurative forms. The artist’s admiration for Italian Old Master Drawings and Paintings with a language that reveals an interest for the 20th Century textured surfaces describe her stylistic sources. All these references found a pluralistic celebration in the artist stylistic language since she moved to the United States and her artistic career took fruition.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eOrtiz-Naretto, a New Jersey based artist, was born in Rancagua, Chile, and soon after raised in two countries, Argentina and Chile. Conserving the last names of her parents, Ortiz-Naretto praises her intriguing multicultural background. Her academic studies, BAs in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires and in Philosophy from Rutgers University, appear clearly in both her sophisticated artistic expressions and her role as curator. Her more important recognitions are the selection of the best artists February 2024 from NonName Collective Gallery in London, the 2023 Bergen County Artist Grant, and the 2025 New Jersey Legislature Praise for her mural Finding Peace in Fort Lee Rd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eARTIST’S STATEMENT\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am looking at my mirror as Paul Eluard would say about my paintings. Almost like a reverie, my oil paintings express my desires, my searches, and my accomplishments. My hands dance with my palette knives and give textured strokes and lumps of material on my canvases. I carefully choose a range of colors to embody a balanced tension between figurative forms and abstract details. My series of cold wax and oil paintings named “Beauty and Decay: A Journey to My Soul” addresses my search for the Self. Intentionally, I oppose the ideas of Beauty and Decay to depict the forces that pull and push constantly within the Self. I intend to freeze that tension in colors and shapes to express beauty and decay like coexisting vivid entities. They show the drama of my existence, and also of human existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/fr\/collections\/mariateresa-ortiz-naretto.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}