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Izabella Ortiz, Mues de Loba, 2015

About the work

Materials

Mixed media on paper

Size

25 1/2 × 19 1/2 in | 64.8 × 49.5 cm

Rarity

Unique

Medium

Drawing, Collage or other Work on Paper

Frame

Included

IO

Izabella Ortiz

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Self-taught artist Izabella Ortiz’s colorful mixed-media paintings evoke dreamscapes. Raised in France, Australia, and Alaska, Ortiz is inspired by myths from Inuit, Aboriginal, and other Indigenous cultures. She describes her visionary work as trance paintings, which she began in 2009 following a pulmonary illness. Her pieces include tangles of semi-abstract forms that have been compared to sea creatures and plants, and her technique has been likened to horror vacui. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions across France and New York and was in group presentations, including the Biennale d’Art Partagé in France (2015 and 2016) and the Triennial of Self-Taught Visionary Art at Serbia’s Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art (2016), which holds her work in its collection.

Selected exhibitions

2022

Swallowing the Ocean, Internalizing the Sea: New Paintings by Izabella Ortiz, Cavin-Morris Gallery

2020

Sea Spells: Izabella Ortiz, Cavin-Morris Gallery

2018

Water Memories: Izabella Ortiz, Cavin-Morris Gallery

Mixed media on paper

25 1/2 × 19 1/2 in | 64.8 × 49.5 cm

Cavin-Morris Gallery

New York