The Gallery at HACPAC is ringing in the New Year with the beautiful works of MariaTeresa Ortiz-Naretto. Please join us on January 9th for the opening reception of Women Goddesses and meet the artist herself!

Cold wax and oil are the main techniques that Ortiz-Naretto utilizes in her artworks. Either on canvas or on paper, the matter appears in a textured movement of strokes, swirls, and lumps that deliver a shallow surface. The texture and colorful palette surrender to figurative forms. The artist’s admiration for Italian Old Master Drawings and Paintings with a language that reveals an interest for the 20th Century textured surfaces describe the artist’s stylistic sources. Ortiz-Naretto, a New Jersey based artist, was born in Rancagua, Chile, and soon after raised in two countries, Argentina and Chile. Conserving the last names of her parents, Ortiz-Naretto praises her intriguing multicultural background that led the artist to immerse in drawing and painting, art history, and philosophy studies. These perspectives determine her paintings with profuse impasto, flat surfaces, and vivid colors, a style that far from being eclectic results in unique images of nature, myths, human figures, and portraits.