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 Vallarta Living | Art Talk | December 2005 
Three Galleries Explored
 Kathy Taylor - PVNN
| | Claudia Ramos and Equilibrio, an explosion of feminity. | 
| | Eye catching necklace display at Corsica Arte Joya. | 
| | Eva Marina Narvaez, Petite Gallery, with sister and owner Beatriz Narvaez. |
Equilibrio, Claudio Ramos' latest work, is a deeply sensual explosion of femininity, echoing the rich detail of Georgia O'Keefe's lilies and the frank sexual politics of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party three-dimensional butterfly plates.
It is the outstanding oil in Ramos' current exhibition at Galeria Portus in Puerto Vallarta, which also includes the haunting Transparencia, 2004, which Ramos says was influenced by Picasso's blue period and the studies of light that are a trademark of Goya and Vermeer. In Transparencia, the viewer is confronted by an icy blue face which stares with one eye steadily from behind thick slashes of white and grass green, the other eye and its vision obscured by the bar-like strokes.
Claudette is ruthless in her self-examination, and remarkably unafraid to reveal herself; much of her early work when she studied at New York Studio School was self portrait - a voice for her inner soul investigated through a number of mediums. Her current portrait work is unusual in its revelation of her subject's character, and her custom mural installations are at once technically precise and whimsical. She will be at Galeria Portus during December's Wednesday evening Art Walks.
Guadalajara artist Jael Cabiedes is featured at Beatriz Narvaez Petite Gallery during the month of December. Her dramatic desnudos Intima Propuesta, and Seduccion Violacea are studies of light and dark, each rescued from ordinary erotic fantasy by a vivid river of thick cerise interrupting the canvas.
Gallery owner Beatriz is also showing her own richly textured oils in her tiny gallery. Petite Galley has scheduled an international lineup of artists for the new year, as well as favored Guadalajara artists such as Rocio Coffeen, whose work will appear in March.
To "create a fusion between art and jewelry" is the mandate of Corsica Arte Joya, the new extension of the well-known and respected Galeria Corsica. Presenting unique jewelry designs by Clara Filser, Maria Ocampo, and Ofelia Murietta, Arte Joya displays its pieces in a gallery setting. The display is elegant in its simplicity and highlights the unique beauty of the pieces, and the variety of material used in design from obsidian to jade to state of the art synthetics. In the window display, the Marco Vargas bust "Blue Man" is wearing obsidian, silver and Lucite.
| | Eye catching necklace display at Corsica Arte Joya. |
| | Marco Vargas' "Blue Man" wearing obsidian, silver, and lucite. |
For more information on the galleries or the art works reviewed, please contact:
Galeria Portus, Guadalupe Sanchez No. 711, [322] 222-9369
- Claudia Ramos can be reached at 044-322-12-6315, compasion1@prodigy.net.mx.
Beatriz Narvaez Petite Gallery, Leona Vicario #241, [322] 223-1967
Corsica Arte Joye, Guadalupe Sanchez, [322] 223-1821
Click HERE to see the Puerto Vallarta Art Walk Map. |
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