Laura Ortiz Vega "Cosmograffiti"
Lyons Wier Gallery
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"Cosmograffiti", Laura Ortiz Vega's first solo exhibition in New York City, fuses traditional Mexican artisanal techniques with contemporary graffiti imagery, creating bold urban landscapes that entice the eye.
Laura Ortiz Vega's process begins with the photographic documentation of graffiti she encounters in the streets of her native Mexico City. Once the original source material has been gathered and gleaned, she starts her process of editing and abstracting, whereby the aggressive environmental content of the original source material is re-contextualized through her own aesthetic filter, developing an intimate visual interpretation rendered in wool.
Further to her appropriations, Vega employs the traditional Mexican technique of the Huichol Indians as her rendered surfaces of colorful threads are embedded into and held in place by a natural bees wax called Cera de Campeche. Laura Ortiz Vega has exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Canada. She lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Schedule
from November 17, 2011 to December 17, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-11-17 from 18:00 to 20:00