WATERCOLOR WORKS
Sacristy Gallery
November 8, 2024 to January 3, 2025
With a penchant for color and contrast, Ortiz combines a variety of colors, patterns, and forms from multiple sources such as ethnographic patterns (Native American pottery and baskets, Islamic tiles, and Italian mosaics), architectural elements (antique vent/register covers, tin ceiling tiles, stained glass windows, wallpaper, and African printed textiles), and botanical forms (florals - orchids, succulents, and most recently focusing on the rose). His finished paintings reflect a collage-like process of overlapping layering, obliterating, and refinement of images with decidedly contemporary color choices.
Ortiz’s Watercolor Works at the Sacristy Gallery, Epiphany Center for the Arts, is the first exhibition to solely feature his watercolors.
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
WATERCOLOR WORKS
Sacristy Gallery
November 8, 2024 to January 3, 2025
With a penchant for color and contrast, Ortiz combines a variety of colors, patterns, and forms from multiple sources such as ethnographic patterns (Native American pottery and baskets, Islamic tiles, and Italian mosaics), architectural elements (antique vent/register covers, tin ceiling tiles, stained glass windows, wallpaper, and African printed textiles), and botanical forms (florals - orchids, succulents, and most recently focusing on the rose). His finished paintings reflect a collage-like process of overlapping layering, obliterating, and refinement of images with decidedly contemporary color choices.
Ortiz’s Watercolor Works at the Sacristy Gallery, Epiphany Center for the Arts, is the first exhibition to solely feature his watercolors.
Click HERE for more information on gallery hours and private appointments.
Ortiz was born in Ocampo, GTO, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States when he was 5. He attended Columbia College as a photography student, then transferred to the University of Illinois at Chicago to study painting. Under the tutelage of Rod Carswell, Julia Fish, and Kerry James Marshall he received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2001. He has since exhibited his work at the University Club of Chicago; the Evanston Art Center; the National Museum of Mexican Art; the Rockford Art Museum; the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit, Wisconsin; the Painting Center, New York; James May Gallery, Wisconsin; and the Meadows Gallery at the University of Texas. Ortiz’s paintings can be found in private and public collections throughout the United States. Ortiz was an artist-in-residence at The Cliff Dwellers Chicago in 2005. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Ortiz was born in Ocampo, GTO, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States when he was 5. He attended Columbia College as a photography student, then transferred to the University of Illinois at Chicago to study painting. Under the tutelage of Rod Carswell, Julia Fish, and Kerry James Marshall he received a BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2001. He has since exhibited his work at the University Club of Chicago; the Evanston Art Center; the National Museum of Mexican Art; the Rockford Art Museum; the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit, Wisconsin; the Painting Center, New York; James May Gallery, Wisconsin; and the Meadows Gallery at the University of Texas. Ortiz’s paintings can be found in private and public collections throughout the United States. Ortiz was an artist-in-residence at The Cliff Dwellers Chicago in 2005. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
