Ana Vanessa Urvina

Visual artist based in Miami, Florida. She has dedicated her life to the study of art theory and to the creation and practice of art. Since 2017, the main theme of her work is the nature of the Tropics -its shapes, colors and meanings ― . Leaves, trees, skies, and the sea are transformed through her brushstrokes, colors, and shapes. Her practice includes different media like paintings, collages, sculptural acrylic boxes, art installations and more recently, selected prints.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in the School of Fine Arts at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and later a master’s degree in Artistic Production, specialization in Visual Arts, at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. She worked as a professor at a couple of universities in Caracas, Venezuela, for several years.

In 2015 she participated in the Advanced Intensive Painting Course as an artist resident in the Shcool of the Arts at Columbia University in New York; since then, her work mainly revolves the exploration of Tropical nature.

She has participated in several art shows (both individual and collective shows), art fairs, and public installations in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Spain and the United States. More recently, her work has taken a step from bidimensional pieces to more sculptural and installative works, and also to the creation of public art proposals.

In this site, you will find an important selections of her works but also a series of pieces for purchase like prints and unique sculptural acrylic boxes.

Statement

My artistic practice examines tropical landscapes. I was born and raised in Venezuela where nature is rich, wild, and exuberant. Growing up surrounded by this scenery had a deep impact on me. Thus, working with landscapes is a way of understanding them, feeling them, and expressing how I conceive them with the support of different techniques I use, such as installation, painting, wall sculpture, acrylic boxes, collages -in paper and canvas-, with materials like acrylic, ink, spray, markets, acrylic prints, and wood sheets.

The process of my work starts from observing and living directly with nature, but it is also an internal process through which my imagination and experiences permeate my vision of the landscape. Literature, poetry, botanical books are part of the process.

The rhythms of plants and water, their infinite shapes, and lines; flowers, trees, leaves, waterfalls, skies are part of the elements with which I build my visual discourse. I am interested in light, the color of the tropics and how it transforms everything in its path.

Georgia O’Keefe, Beatriz Milhazes, and Sol Calero are my inspirations but also the landscape that surrounds me; abstract, organic forms derive from these experiences and have been forming a specific visual language in my work.