Melissa Aristizábal

Joined Artfinder: May 2021

Artworks for sale: 30

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Mexico

About Melissa Aristizábal

 
 
  • Biography
    Melissa Aristizábal reinvents the beauty of sacred and religious imagery based on antiquated cultures. Seeking relationships between different religions, sacred geometry and connections that exist in the psychology of the feminine with the magnificence of the universe. She places some of these feminine characters within diverse media and contexts ranging from oil paintings to large-scale murals. Considering the power of icons this reinterpretation of the sacred has no intention of being profane instead it is an attempt to build a reinterpretation, and in this way enunciate one of the constants of the human condition - mankind's enslaving of themselves by their own inventions. Melissa is an artist, muralist and freelance graphic designer who graduated from LaSalle College institute based in Bogotá, Colombia. 
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  • Education

    2010 - 2012

    potificia universidad javeriana

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    Event: Underground

    Dates: 29 Jun 2024 - 29 Jul 2024

    Venue: The Holy Art Gallery, London, London, UK

    Virtual group exhibition

    Event: Underground

    Dates: 29 Jun 2024 - 29 Jul 2024

    Venue: The Holy Art Gallery, London, London, UK

    Virtual group exhibition

    Event: afterlight

    Dates: 22 Apr 2021 - 22 May 2021

    Venue: field projects, new york

    The artists in Afterlight, having experienced a year of containment and turmoil, soften the shutters of their periphery. Memory and body become vast landscapes in flux, and each artwork an exorcism of the personal-liminal. This vantage courts disruption to varying degrees of palpability throughout the exhibition, the goal being to interrogate both the subtle and robust ways we shift our relationships to constructs that once felt immutable. Working through the social within a domestic setting cultivates a double interior, or space within a space, where knowing and forgetting somersault in and out of one another toward new futures. ⁠
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    In their ability to scrutinize intimate patterns, symbols and materials, these artists are able to become poetically expansive. They invite the viewer to enter into new timescapes where questions of value are raised and where significance is constantly being negotiated. As the sepic under layers of their work lay foundations onto which we apply.

Links

Like me on Facebook

Follow me on Instagram

Visit my website

Education

2010 - 2012

potificia universidad javeriana

There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Underground

Dates: 29 Jun 2024 - 29 Jul 2024

Venue: The Holy Art Gallery, London, London, UK

Virtual group exhibition

Event: Underground

Dates: 29 Jun 2024 - 29 Jul 2024

Venue: The Holy Art Gallery, London, London, UK

Virtual group exhibition

Event: afterlight

Dates: 22 Apr 2021 - 22 May 2021

Venue: field projects, new york

The artists in Afterlight, having experienced a year of containment and turmoil, soften the shutters of their periphery. Memory and body become vast landscapes in flux, and each artwork an exorcism of the personal-liminal. This vantage courts disruption to varying degrees of palpability throughout the exhibition, the goal being to interrogate both the subtle and robust ways we shift our relationships to constructs that once felt immutable. Working through the social within a domestic setting cultivates a double interior, or space within a space, where knowing and forgetting somersault in and out of one another toward new futures. ⁠
⁠
In their ability to scrutinize intimate patterns, symbols and materials, these artists are able to become poetically expansive. They invite the viewer to enter into new timescapes where questions of value are raised and where significance is constantly being negotiated. As the sepic under layers of their work lay foundations onto which we apply.

 

Biography

Melissa Aristizábal reinvents the beauty of sacred and religious imagery based on antiquated cultures. Seeking relationships between different religions, sacred geometry and connections that exist in the psychology of the feminine with the magnificence of the universe. She places some of these feminine characters within diverse media and contexts ranging from oil paintings to large-scale murals. Considering the power of icons this reinterpretation of the sacred has no intention of being profane instead it is an attempt to build a reinterpretation, and in this way enunciate one of the constants of the human condition - mankind's enslaving of themselves by their own inventions. Melissa is an artist, muralist and freelance graphic designer who graduated from LaSalle College institute based in Bogotá, Colombia. 
 
 
 

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