Friday, December 13, 2024

Artist of the Day, December 13, 2024: Paula Cortazar, a Mexican emerging sculptor, carving artist (#2176)

Paula Cortazar (1991)is a Mexican sculptor, carving artist. She was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, where she lives and works. In 2014 she graduated with honors at the University of Monterrey’ BA in fine arts and was resident at the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France.

In 2013 she was selected for the Contemporary Photography Program, an educational project of the Nuevo León photograph library. In May 2019, got a Certification of Visual Arts at the San Agustín Center in Etla, Oaxaca. In 2015, 2017 and 2020, she had solo shows at Machete Gallery (CDMX). Her work was part of several collective exhibitions.

She was honoured with different awards, among them: SWAB/ESPRONCEDA Art Prize (2021); 2nd State Prize of Arts of Nueva Leon Arts Center, Monterrey (2020), the scholarship for Young Creators (2020-21 and 2015-16)

Influenced by Isamu Noguchi and Andy Goldsworthy, Paula often draws and meditates before creating her etchings, which evoke tree fractals and river tessellations

Paula who crafts her inimitable works with a diamond-tipped engraver, selected the familiar countertop material due to its ubiquitous beauty in daily life.

Cortazar finds stones in the mountains and streams near her studio-home in Parque la Huasteca, rescuing them, she explains, to share their journey.

Patterns seem to bring a feeling of comfort to our senses: they help us decipher and process the complex living structures, lines, and shapes that surround us. Paula Cortazar interprets the hidden patterns in nature, of a tree or a river, through drawing and carving on stone. These repeated actions give rise to organically shaped stone pieces, reminding us that a small fraction of the mountain is present and that each fraction of her work is a part of the whole.

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Ms. Paula Cortazar

 Dawn Nº. 6, 2016
 caliza 13, 2016
 Small Topo, 2018
 On mountain fragments, 2018
 Nº.  5 (from the series The power of the river), 2018
 N°. 1 (from the series The force of the river), 2018
 Memories Nº. 3, 2018

Scars, 2019
From the series Humans engraved on marble, 2019
 El Rio y Las Piedras, 2020
 Flowing, 2020
 Fossils, 2020
 Linked, 2020
 Recuerdoa de un Paisaje Nº3, 2020
 River stones, 2020
 River, 2020
 Shells, 2020
 Stone fruit, 2020
 Cartas al río, 2021
 Cells, 2021
 Imagine, 2021
 Untitled #3, 2021
 Wait…, 2021
Clay column, 2022
 Clay body, 2022
 Clay seeds, 2022
Fruit, 2022
 Fruit, 2022 and detail
 My sisters, 2022
 Puerto Escondido, 2022
 Resiliencia, 2022
 The footprint of water, 2022

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