Ingrid Marrero
Ingrid grew up surrounded by art in the border town of El Paso, TX. From a very young age, she attended her grandfather’s art exhibitions and remembers studying his paintings until she fell asleep. She went on to major in International Relations and minor in Art graduating summa cum laude before dedicating more time to painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she moved towards abstraction as a response to the desire for a universal language. She still enjoys doing representational work, loves painting with oil, but also loves creating collages and mixed media pieces. She is highly influenced by other artists, particularly her grandfather who has an MFA in fine art, studied with Mariano, a pupil of Diego Rivera, and whose work is often expressionistic, by her travels, music and architecture, particularly the work of Gaudi.
Artist’s Statement:
I have been fascinated with order and organization my entire life. When I add color to that mix, I am in heaven. My color collages and abstract paintings are intended to be orderly. I believe in chaos theory and that everything from our veins and vessels to the trees and mountains is patterned. I revel in the fact that color can be ephemerally orderly and in pointing that out through abstraction. Furthermore, the collage process includes destruction, which naturally is as powerful as creation, and which allows for something to be created out of that which may have been on its way to the trash. To me, these color abstracts portray the person’s inner harmony or outer environment, and are, in their own way, portraits.
-Ingrid Marrero
Her work can be viewed at www.zhibit.org/ingridmarrero
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