Today we’d like to introduce you to Orianna Montenegro.
Orianna, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Ever since I was little, I loved to paint, I knew my path was set to be on the creative path. Thanks to my family for pushing me and supporting me in all of my aspirations and dreams. Having the opportunity of traveling around, my brain started to be anchored in the arts in a more decisive way. I decided to study a B.F.A in Studio Art and a B.A. in Graphic Design at Lindenwood University in St Charles, Missouri. Through my career, it helped me to understand more about the field and creative process, the more I knew, the more I wanted to dig deeper. Ever since I graduated from college back in 2016, I moved to Miami and I’ve been working as a creative at Macias Creative in Downtown, which I can call now my familia. Also, I’ve been busy chasing new projects, shows, and galleries in the USA and overseas.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It’s been good so far. I’m from a small agricultural town named Acarigua in Venezuela where I was very much connected to nature my whole childhood. I believe moving from Venezuela to different countries and cities inside the USA have influenced my work in different ways creating the connection from nature to my work, but it also have given me challenges in adapting to different cultures.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My work is mostly abstract and conceptual art, my mediums of choice are acrylics and oils on canvas or wood panels and mixed media. My work is conceptually driven by balance of an infinite mixture of time; by what the human eye cannot see, but feel in different stages of life and enhances consciousness. Through what is intangible and cannot be capture by the intellect, but by the senses. My approach is very intuitive; through the use of primary elements aligned around color, I create space-contained systems driven by shapes, layers, patterns and textures. Through its combination; revealing processes of nature of time on human life. Every color speaks to me on multiple levels and different stages of my life; and this dialogue is present in the synthesis of reality fragments, the past, present, future, and the emotions. These coexist with the free will of forms, lines, texture, distorted images layer and most importantly color vibration. I have a gallery representation at Agora Gallery in NYC and in the past five years my work have been exhibited in galleries like Site: Brooklyn in NYC — Curators Voice Art Project in Miami — Mint Gallery in ATL — red03 Art Gallery in Barcelona, Spain — Viridian Artists, NYC — Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver, and among others.
How do you think about luck?
Luck is subjective, I feel there’s a combination of factors, including hard work and determination as the main factors involved before luck. However, I feel very lucky and grateful to my family that have supported me since the beginning and have pushed and helped me to be where I am today. Additionally, I’m very much grateful to all the people that have appreciated my work and have stopped to look at my work in a world of so much noise. Thanks to the people that have given me opportunities along the way, I’ve been able to solidify my career. Last, but not least, I personally think these are the biggest engines that have helped me to be where I am today: believing in myself, constancy, family support, dedication, security and hunger to show my work to the world.
Contact Info:
- Email: osmontenegroh@gmail.com
- Website: www.oriannation.com
- Instagram: @oriannationstudio
