Esther
Montoro

Feelings and emotions can be expressed in in a visual form. Madrileña Esther Montoro, currently based between NY and Miami, explores moods and the frailty of being alive through paint and molded canvases. Her past of psychology and photography blend in with her current explorative paintings. Shaping canvases into visual illusions of lifelines intermingling with each other and eliciting a sense of history, and personal power trip over the never-ending fight with nature. She feels like a godly-reverse-surgeon, trying to bring back to the surface every sign of history, creating wrinkles, honoring age and weight, molding thoughts and iconic shapes into otherwise flat surfaces. Pretending to have control over the unkind power of time, has triggered these emotional maps regarding the terminal nature of our existence. Turning a painting into a tridimensional expression adds the infinite layers we’re made of. We are as contradicting or as simple as life itself, or what we make out of it. Still trying to fill in the blanks of life by creating conceptual explanations of the abstract. The path to purpose becomes purposeful itself, by turning all the circuitry within our complicated psyche inside out, exposed to the viewer, who may or may not identify. The dichotomy between our opposing forces of nature, is boldly expressed through her art, via the contrasting lines and drips, sometimes organic, sometimes forced. Our biology determines a part of our being, we decide the rest.