Lorena Fernandez

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.