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Biographical Note
Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1977, Omar showed a great interest for drawing and illustration since early age. He studied a Degree for Graphic Design, where he learned to work with different techniques such as drawing, pastel, charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, and airbrush. when he finished his degree he decides to devote his self to the world of painting. In 2002 took his first lessons of Oil with the artist Carmen Alarcon who he considers his principal teacher of Art. Omar currently paints in oil because he considers it the most noble technique.
A Minimalist Realism dominated by whites, human figure and a magical game of drapery, characterizes his work.
Omar Ortiz uses the human body as a principal element in his work, the relationship between it and its expression is not only natural but inevitable. The viewer is in front of figures with certain characteristics and reacts according to its circumstances. From here, I always say That the painting surprised me, excited me and consequently captivated me.
In Omar's paintings attracts how he decontextualises everyday objects, another characteristic of his work is the possibility it gives us to use the images themselves, to give them an artistic language, as outsiders, or simply allows us to observe and reuse in a collage speculative undertaking a recycling expressive images as a tool independent of the intrinsic quality of work, perhaps because a narrative take hold of itself, act as intimate pieces, in themselves trapped, out of context and space |
