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About the paintings:
Lorena Fernandez works primarily as a coach and consultant, and some times creates paintings that have been
exhibited in local galleries, and are in private collections around the world. Her 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.
Artist Statement:
"I paint, sculpt, and print to represent my emotional reality and my commitment to my passions, as the elements that
guide the directions in which I take my life. Passions defined not as mere feelings or sensations, but as powerful
insights into the being that I really am. I paint, sculpt, and print as an expression of the fundamental place that my
personal freedom has in the way I live my life. I cannot (I refuse to) be carried by the currents of my life in the form of
social pressures; instead I am passionately committed to a certain direction, even when I don't know its final
destination.”
Lorena B. Fernandez
Lorena Fernandez works primarily as a coach and consultant, and some times creates paintings that have been
exhibited in local galleries, and are in private collections around the world. Her 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.
Artist Statement:
"I paint, sculpt, and print to represent my emotional reality and my commitment to my passions, as the elements that
guide the directions in which I take my life. Passions defined not as mere feelings or sensations, but as powerful
insights into the being that I really am. I paint, sculpt, and print as an expression of the fundamental place that my
personal freedom has in the way I live my life. I cannot (I refuse to) be carried by the currents of my life in the form of
social pressures; instead I am passionately committed to a certain direction, even when I don't know its final
destination.”
Lorena B. Fernandez
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