Oly Díaz Torres
BIO
Oly Díaz Torres (Caracas, Venezuela, 1972)
Venezuelan artist living in Spain, she bases her work on pictorial abstraction, sometimes playing with the collage of her own painted and cut canvas. An explosion of color and strength that attracts the viewer. Under an abstract appearance, her work hides a series of symbols and icons that speak to us about identity and society. Multicolored spots that transform into flags and maps, representing the multiple challenges that our society faces today. Changes of course, of policies, of economies... represented through touches of globalization. A new reality full of color, where some tones and thoughts embrace each other while others collide and repel each other.
Her paintings investigate what makes us unique and equal, individual and collective. Shapes and colors composed of feelings, desires and thoughts. A complex colorful framework that is built layer by layer, moment by moment, where everything above adds up and shapes the final result. Artistic reflection of what is experienced moment by moment, bringing us closer to the way in which memory is articulated.
Oly Díaz Torres is currently studying PHD in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, she studied her bachelor's degree at the Armando Reverón Institute of Advanced Studies in Plastic Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. She also studied in England, at Chelsea College of Art and Design and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts. Her works have been shown in numerous galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Venezuela, England and the United States.
Venezuelan artist living in Spain, she bases her work on pictorial abstraction, sometimes playing with the collage of her own painted and cut canvas. An explosion of color and strength that attracts the viewer. Under an abstract appearance, her work hides a series of symbols and icons that speak to us about identity and society. Multicolored spots that transform into flags and maps, representing the multiple challenges that our society faces today. Changes of course, of policies, of economies... represented through touches of globalization. A new reality full of color, where some tones and thoughts embrace each other while others collide and repel each other.
Her paintings investigate what makes us unique and equal, individual and collective. Shapes and colors composed of feelings, desires and thoughts. A complex colorful framework that is built layer by layer, moment by moment, where everything above adds up and shapes the final result. Artistic reflection of what is experienced moment by moment, bringing us closer to the way in which memory is articulated.
Oly Díaz Torres is currently studying PHD in Artistic Production at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, she studied her bachelor's degree at the Armando Reverón Institute of Advanced Studies in Plastic Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. She also studied in England, at Chelsea College of Art and Design and at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts. Her works have been shown in numerous galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Venezuela, England and the United States.