Anna Ortiz

"BIZNAGA", MesoAmerican, Mexico, myth, gods, flora, Aztec, Mayan, dream, cactus

2021

HIERVE EL AGUA, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, depicts a true landscape in Oaxaca, Mexico, with the artist's own intervention – a statue of a god ...

HUEHUETEOTL, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, depicts the ancient deity, the god of fire, as a woman feeling the weight of the world, enduring the p...

OFRENDA, an oil painting on canvas by Anna Ortiz, depicts a deity or statue in a landscape of rock and scrub, lying outstretched on the ground with an offering on it's body – whether...

DUAL CITIZEN, an oil painting on panel by Anna Ortiz, depicts a mysterious two-headed totem in the middle of a landscape both strange and familiar – painted in rose and pink tones, w...

"Falling Figure" is an acrylic painting on canvas measuring 16" high by 16" wide. The title may be somewhat disingenuous – falling figure indeed – with cloven hoofs, red skin and horns on head suggesting a demon's fall from grace. The demon? Mythic and humanitarian all at once, the figure appears to be wearing stylish shorts and gives the thumbs up sign on the way down. Perhaps an all too familiar predicament as we tumble toward our own destinies... Press Release 2018: "Williams acknowledges a large range of influences on his vision: the moral lessons embodied in the works of 17th century engraver Jacques Lagniet, the darkling phantasms and tragic reportage of Goya’s Caprichos and Disasters of War, and the personal mythologizing of the late paintings of Philip Guston. Such works echo throughout Williams social surrealist re-visioning." – George Del Barrio, Vanderbilt Republic, Brooklyn NY Dale Williams has exhibited in the New York City area for the past 25 years. He is a 2014 recipient of a Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His most recent one-person show, “America Now Suite,” which re-visioned American history in service of the civic imagination, was held at Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn in October 2018. A selection of portraits from “America Now Suite” was included in the BRIC Biennial, Winter/Spring 2019. His portrait of Osip Mandelstam...

"Outskirts" is an acrylic painting with collage elements on canvas, measuring 38" high by 44" wide. There's nowhere to hide in any of William's paintings, that's part of the charge coming off his canvases. That's particularly true with this painting – we immediately see that everything is wrong, hands coming out of trees, a human head on a horse or dog. Yes it's Mythic but even there it's wrong, the legs are impossibly crossed. In fact little of this painting can be true and yet here it is. Out of control, left over and residual ways and means of living life. Who or what are we now? Press Release 2018: "Williams acknowledges a large range of influences on his vision: the moral lessons embodied in the works of 17th century engraver Jacques Lagniet, the darkling phantasms and tragic reportage of Goya’s Caprichos...

New York City Panoramic Street Scene with Limousine and Neon Lights in the Rain, by British Contemporary Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Entitled “Neon Limousine”, this uni...

Times Square New York City Reflections after the Rain by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Entitled “November Rain”, this unique origi...

Large Landscape Painting of the Hudson River, New York State, USA by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 48 x 36 inches Wakefield's work is a unique blend ...

Times Square New York City Reflections after the Rain by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Entitled “November Rain II”, this unique original is a major work to contin...

Park Lane Hotel, Central Park, New York City NYC USA by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 30 x 30 inches Frame measures 35 x 35 inches Wakefield's work is...

"The great sea ride" is a painting by the French artist Maestro Danielle Le Bricquir. Through her art, she has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful expression. Abou...