The
World of Paradoxes
Paintings by
Lisie S. Orjuela
 New
Haven Free Public Library Gallery
133 Elm Street (Lower Level) New Haven, CT
Artist
Reception: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Exhibition: March 15 to April
30, 2010
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crows
inside
2008, oil on canvas, 75"w x 20"h
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"The
world of paradoxes currently engages my attention," writes
Lisie Orjuela. "Our interior territories, with the struggles
and contradictions of the soul, the spirit, the psyche, and
the mind is a vast, complicated, and intriguing field. The attempt
to understand and be consciously aware of this, motivates me
and drives my artwork. My paintings integrate and weave thoughts,
feelings, and experiences into an avenue in which to tap into,
explore and inhabit these bewildering paradoxes. I use the format
of diptychs and triptychs to accentuate the underlying sense
of disruption, disconnection, abstraction, which is juxtaposed
with continuity, fluidity, connections.
"I work in a way that reflects natural life; in a slow
organic process each painting is created. The paintings are
created with multiple layers of paint, visual textures, rich
earthy colors, as well as human and animal forms. The figures
tend to be a central part in most of the work, dissolving and
coming out of the surrounding ground, interacting with it, and
being a part thereof. The paintings change and evolve continuously
as I work on them, as layers cover and reveal some of the earlier
stages. I work with oil paints, oil bars, and oil pastels on
stretched canvas. Most of my current work is approximately 4
and 5 feet square." |
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flowershells
and honeycombs
2007, oil on canvas, 60"w x 63"h
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| Originally
from Argentina, and now a resident of Trumbull, Ms. Orjuela
holds an MA from New York University, and a BFA from Andrews
University, Michigan. She also attended the Art Students League
in NYC. She began her teaching career in Mexico in 1986 as an
Assistant Professor of Art at the Universidad de Montemorelos,
where she later served in 1992 and 1998 as Visiting Artist and
Lecturer. She has taught Studio Art, Art History, and Museum
at such schools as Hunter College High School, and the Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum in New York City. She has lectured in
Mexico and at St. Paul’s Chapel on the campus of Columbia
on the development of early Christian and sacred medieval art,
and on Spiritualism and Feminism. |
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(un)rooting
2006, oil on canvas, 62" x 62"
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Ms.
Orjuela’s artwork is in the collections of the Art Students
League, NYC; McHenry College, Crystal Lake, Illinois; and the
Museo Carmelo Fernandez, San Felipe, Venezuela. She has been
active in open studio exhibitions at Roz Liebowitz Studio, NYC;
at Brickbottom, Somerville, MA; and City Wide in New Haven.
Lisie Orjuela is a co-founder of A+LL, the Arts + Literature
Laboratory artist co-operative in New Haven.
She has
had solo shows at: Pegasus Gallery, Watching, Middletown,
CT, Andrews University Art & Design Gallery, (un)rooting,
Berrien Springs, MI, MacDonough Gallery, Albertus Magnus College,
New Haven, CT, Zeitgeist Gallery, Connecting Points, Cambridge,
MA, Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University,
Connecting Points, Hackensack, NJ, Torrefazione Italia, Boston,
MA, Moira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Recent Work, Hamden,
CT, Center for the Creative Arts, Edges, Yorklyn, DE, the
York Square Cinema Gallery in 2002, the Kansas City Art Center
Mallin Gallery; East Central University Gallery, OK; IAO,
Oklahoma City; and Galeria Eleanor Jackson, Montemorelos.
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blown
through
2009, oil on canvas, 65"w x 65"h
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