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Ana Elisa Benavent
June 2014
Landing
I paint emotions, and I paint them in colors. Joy, love, sorrow, frustration, excitement… A warm orange red cheers up a gloomy midnight blue… A big, bold, jealous deep purple takes over… Let’s invite a bit of white to make peace. And so these large fields of color start talking to and playing with each other, layer over layer, foundation colors under translucent colors under contrasting colors, it’s all a moving target of shapes, lines, and textures. Rolling, brushing, dripping, spattering, slathering. They all add up to tell the story. My story, your story.
Ana Elisa grew up in Mexico City and has lived in Alexandria, Virginia since 1999. Always exploring different forms of art on the side, she spent the first part of her life as a marketing professional working mostly for nonprofit organizations, until formally taking up abstract art under Marsha Staiger at The Art League School in Alexandria. She has exhibited in the Washington DC area and New York. She is a member of International Arts & Artists and the Foundry Gallery in Washington, DC, and of The Art League in Alexandria, VA
Visit the artist’s website at anaelisabenavent.com
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