Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on April 3, 2014, of Beatriz Elorza: Breathing Color, an exhibition and sale of new mixed media on canvas abstractions. A Spanish artist currently living in New York City, Elorza is inspired by her surroundings and translates the energy and visual information of New York into her work using color as her personal language. This is Elorza’s first exhibition at Spanierman Modern.

The color in Elorza’s work seems a spontaneous emission, as if she had transmitted her emotions directly onto canvas through the mere act of breathing. The viewer, in turn, is drawn into the vortexes of movement in her images, yet they offer points of seductive languor along the way, in the presence of floral shapes opening outward, clouds that provide moments of rest, and other suggestive elements. At the same time, Elorza’s paintings feature a strong sense of depth, which derives from her knowledge of architecture-the field in which she began her career-and the importance to her of the landscape of her hometown of Santander, Spain. While her work always references landscape or spatial depth, she avoids the presence of a horizon line. Thus departing from classical conceptions of space, she creates dialogues between different spatial planes, allowing viewers to find their own road maps. Her
use of color spots, drips, and splatters convey her “fearless and intuitive process” while making all of the elements in these imaginary worlds seem to be “alive.”

Evoking Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, and Spanish painterly traditions, Elorza’s canvases reference today’s sensory overload experienced with a rare unfiltered and raw openness.

After working as an architect, Elorza began to study art in 2006 in Madrid, receiving instruction for five years from Guipuzcoa Leticia de Urbina. She continued her training at New York’s Art Students League, from 2011 to 2013, where her teachers were Frank O’Cain and Bruce Dorfman. She has had solo exhibitions in Madrid and Santander, Spain, and in New York. She has been included in group exhibitions in Spain, Russia, London, and New York. Her work is in the collection of the Tsvetaev Museum, Moscow, Russia.

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Related images

  1. Beatriz Elorza (b. 1981), Untitled, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso: Beatriz Elorza Herra / New York September 2013 / Beatriz Elorza
  2. Beatriz Elorza (b. 1981), Davide, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso: Beatriz Elorza Herra / October 2013 New York / Beatriz Elorza
  3. Beatriz Elorza (b. 1981), Breathe Deeply, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso: Beatriz Elorza Herra / New York / Beatriz Elorza
  4. Beatriz Elorza (b. 1981), Piña, 2014, Mixed media on canvas, 80 x 72 inches, Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso: Beatriz Elorza Herra / New York 2014 / Beatriz Elorza
  5. Beatriz Elorza (b. 1981), Identity, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso: Beatriz Elorza Herra / New York 2013 / Beatriz Elorza
  6. Beatriz Elorza (b. 1981), Freedom, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Signed, dated, and inscribed on verso: Beatriz Elorza Herra / October 2013 New York / Beatriz Elorza