“Illuminate”
“There is a sense of sacredness and security seeing the light illuminating the dark.”
Spirituality in Art
The ethos of the desert is present in my work.
Is the traditional art gallery dead?
A disappearing retail category: art galleries The role of travel agents continues to disappear, replaced by apps and algorithms to book a hotel, rent a car and buy tickets to a show. Video stores, bookstores, camera shops, the brick and mortar versions have vanished, displaced by technology. Art galleries, cultural and art museums continue to…
Totems: Spiritual Markers
A totem is a symbol for a sacred object.
Desert Agave: Sharp, Spikey, Spiritual
An elegant design adapted for desert life. Sharp and spikey for protection, with a smooth and tough skin to capture what is rare in the desert: Moisture. It lives as it was designed. In a way, I am casting the “inner” life of an Agave, its invisible nature full of life and light. The Agave…
Art & Dreams: Things that fly
Dreams project a reality through a dimension of sub-conscious images, experiences, and vibrations. The art of dreams depict movement. The dream has out-of-body movement, sometimes pleasant, sometimes daunting, sometimes real. In my dreams, I travel through realms that are purely imaginary, yet quietly familiar. My movement is aided by the wind high above the places…
Soiree # 7 October 22.
Sunday October 23 is Open Studio Sale Soiree # 7 is in the planning stage Soiree #7 is in the planning stage. We will announce the artists participating in the event soon. See Soiree # 6 https://larryjortega.com/soirees/ We invite you to visit us on Sunday October 23rd at 11:30 AM for our fall Open Studio…
Guardians of the Garden
A sensual light interupts the invasion of the dark. Sharp edges illuminate and define the darkness. The “other world” color has a light spectrum that engages the darkness, allowing the light to hover in silence.
“Surrender”
Desert Spirituality I am fascinated by religions, especially Native American religion and culture. Shamans and healers, speak about the meaning of engagements with the animal spirits. These holy men say that a hawk is often a messenger from Angels, Devas and the Divine. I muse that the found objects embedded within my work are like…
My art explains my life. My life explains my art
How do you explain your art? So what kind of art do you make? Explaining your art using the written language can be daunting. Describing it helps, but it is only skin deep. The process of creating the work is another layer and story. Emotion and ethos lays down another layer in my work. For…