Art by Lorena Fernandez

About Lorena Fernandez Art:

Lorena Fernandez's mixed media paintings feature bold swaths of saturated colors
and figures with sweeping lines. Dynamic shapes and swirling tones give an
impression of cosmic momentum and ebullient energy. This eye-catching vivacity
springs from Fernandez's wealth of personal experience. Born and raised in
Venezuela, she has studied and worked in Texas, Singapore and Switzerland, as
Industrial Engineer, Artist and as impassioned Facilitator of Expressive Arts therapy.
Accordingly, there is a universal resonance to the silhouetted figures in her works, a
sense that the moving body intimates lived experience.

If personal trajectory determines the form of Fernandez's work, then the play
between the feminine and masculine aspects of her experience is the most frequently
recurring thematic content. Female bodies often appear floating powerfully across
the canvas “sometimes out from confining squares” or frozen in self-aware poses.
Cut-out photographs often qualify these female figures, with images of skyscrapers
and hands suggesting agents of masculine power and control. Fernandez manifests
a feminine sense of flowing power and movement that evades the containment of
masculine linearity.

Artist Statement:

"I paint, sculpt, and print to represent my emotional reality and my commitment to my
passions, as the elements that guide the directions in which I take my life. Passions
defined not as mere feelings or sensations, but as powerful insights into the being
that I really am. I paint, sculpt, and print as an expression of the fundamental place
that my personal freedom has in the way I live my life. I cannot (I refuse to) be carried
by the currents of my life in the form of social pressures; instead I am passionately
committed to a certain direction, even when I don't know its final destination.”
Lorena B. Fernandez