Helena La Rota Lopez, "Vita Study”
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches, 2015.
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BIO
Helena La Rota López is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, she emigrated to the U.S. pursuing an artistic education–first studying Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College (BA 2016), then obtaining an MFA in Painting and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art (2019). She currently works at her home studio in Queens and frequently collaborates with fellow visual and performing artists. La Rota López has exhibited in group shows in the U.S. and Italy including DFN Projects–Equity Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Washington State University, C-Street Gallery, the NYC Colombian Consulate, Highline Stages, Studio Kraczyna, and Convitto della Calza. She participated in several group exhibitions at the New York Academy of Art, most significantly Parallels & Peripheries, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Robyn Gibson. She was interviewed for STIRworld magazine and has been mentioned in National Geographic, Artists’ Magazine, and Barganews.
STATEMENT
My work is a tightrope walk between clinical and romantic. By studying the languages of multiple disciplines and fusing them in my artwork, I build portals into spaces of introspection, invocation, curiosity, inhabited by creatures from our psyche that blur traditional binaries. My inspiration stems from oneiric and divine archetype mutations in art history, folklore, and mythology, as well as human anatomy as architectural construction. I spin an organic web of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and performative installations featuring my music and choreographies. The results are liminal places: fragile suspensions of reality where we might find truths about ourselves through the eyes of another. This work evokes awareness at the fluidity between the language of the sensate world around us, the instinctive world inside, and the reason that enlightens and blinds us. My purpose is to find the meanings of one side in the other, similarities in our differences.
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches, 2015.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Helena La Rota López is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, she emigrated to the U.S. pursuing an artistic education–first studying Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College (BA 2016), then obtaining an MFA in Painting and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art (2019). She currently works at her home studio in Queens and frequently collaborates with fellow visual and performing artists. La Rota López has exhibited in group shows in the U.S. and Italy including DFN Projects–Equity Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Washington State University, C-Street Gallery, the NYC Colombian Consulate, Highline Stages, Studio Kraczyna, and Convitto della Calza. She participated in several group exhibitions at the New York Academy of Art, most significantly Parallels & Peripheries, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Robyn Gibson. She was interviewed for STIRworld magazine and has been mentioned in National Geographic, Artists’ Magazine, and Barganews.
STATEMENT
My work is a tightrope walk between clinical and romantic. By studying the languages of multiple disciplines and fusing them in my artwork, I build portals into spaces of introspection, invocation, curiosity, inhabited by creatures from our psyche that blur traditional binaries. My inspiration stems from oneiric and divine archetype mutations in art history, folklore, and mythology, as well as human anatomy as architectural construction. I spin an organic web of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and performative installations featuring my music and choreographies. The results are liminal places: fragile suspensions of reality where we might find truths about ourselves through the eyes of another. This work evokes awareness at the fluidity between the language of the sensate world around us, the instinctive world inside, and the reason that enlightens and blinds us. My purpose is to find the meanings of one side in the other, similarities in our differences.
Graphite on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches, 2015.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Helena La Rota López is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, she emigrated to the U.S. pursuing an artistic education–first studying Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College (BA 2016), then obtaining an MFA in Painting and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art (2019). She currently works at her home studio in Queens and frequently collaborates with fellow visual and performing artists. La Rota López has exhibited in group shows in the U.S. and Italy including DFN Projects–Equity Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Washington State University, C-Street Gallery, the NYC Colombian Consulate, Highline Stages, Studio Kraczyna, and Convitto della Calza. She participated in several group exhibitions at the New York Academy of Art, most significantly Parallels & Peripheries, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Robyn Gibson. She was interviewed for STIRworld magazine and has been mentioned in National Geographic, Artists’ Magazine, and Barganews.
STATEMENT
My work is a tightrope walk between clinical and romantic. By studying the languages of multiple disciplines and fusing them in my artwork, I build portals into spaces of introspection, invocation, curiosity, inhabited by creatures from our psyche that blur traditional binaries. My inspiration stems from oneiric and divine archetype mutations in art history, folklore, and mythology, as well as human anatomy as architectural construction. I spin an organic web of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and performative installations featuring my music and choreographies. The results are liminal places: fragile suspensions of reality where we might find truths about ourselves through the eyes of another. This work evokes awareness at the fluidity between the language of the sensate world around us, the instinctive world inside, and the reason that enlightens and blinds us. My purpose is to find the meanings of one side in the other, similarities in our differences.