An 8 painting small exhibit of my most recent project based on my research regarding the state of Happiness.

8 Artistas: Jorge Crespo, Maria Teresa Pérez, Ana Rita Rosales, Gilberto Aquino, Adrian Gomez, Lillianne Ruiz y Natalia Phillips

“El Museo de Arte Costarricense (MAC) abrió su convocatoria para el Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales 2019, en continuidad de los concursos conocidos como los Salones Nacionales de Artes Plásticas, realizados de 1972 a 1993. Consecuente con el discurso del MAC, el concurso se plantea como un espacio de visibilización y valorización de las prácticas artísticas actuales en nuestro país. Su objetivo fundamental es permitir una visión global de la producción nacional en el campo de las artes visuales en un momento de convergencia de fórmulas tradicionales, modernas, contemporáneas e híbridas en la creación plástica.

Esta exposición espera constituir un espacio de diálogo para reflexionar sobre la pertinencia, vigencia e impacto de las producciones artísticas actuales….”

On Being and not Being

My Art Work is an eclectic sample that is looking to find balance and harmony between elements that are frequently opposite and disconnected. I work on multiple works at a time, allowing for each to influence and imprint upon the other. It is a fusion of two series that are set off, but that cannot exist without the other. 

Its objective is to stir the mind and become a positive influence on the multiple aspects of our individual reality.

I want to show how a concept can take many forms, thus continuing my investigation on the theme of duality and the possibilities unleashed by our need to be several things at once. Every Art Work has and tells its story.  However, every story and its interpretation is influenced not only by the prism of our own experience, but by our multiple perceptions.  The order that we live each experience, will also have an effect on its interpretation.

With this series I continue to explore the concept of Duality and the possibilities unleashed by the need to be several things at once. I want to show that it is not just possible, but feasible to follow several paths at once. In Art, the "tug of war" is between the traditional and the conceptual, using the opposing elements as an allegory towards the different influences I have encountered in my own life.

The series was exhibited in the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington D.C. in September 2016. It also formed part of Washington´s Art All Night event.

"Between Memories and Dreams" is a path traced over a very fine line that barely manages to separate what is real and what is unreal. It represents a search for identity that explores the Duality of Life and that allows one self to escape the "real" world by confronting it through the imaginary.

This Artists dynamic bold colors combined with the precision of pointillism and other flowing techniques should be a crowd pleaser. This is Lillianne Ruiz´s first Individual Exhibition.