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Still Points
Opening Reception: Sunday September 6, 2026, 3 to 6 pm BRIGHTWORKS
GALLERY, 38 Rusling Place, Bridgeport, CT 06604 CO-CURATED by JOHN ANTHONY BRIGHT Brightworks Gallery john.works101@gmail.com
and JOHNES RUTA AzothGallery.com azothgallery@comcast.net |
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Lisie S. Orjuela - Painting No. 1 - oil on canvas - 38" x 32" |
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Artist Statement Careful noticing is my companion and ally. I am interested in how a barely seen image, in the peripheral outskirts of vision, can evoke stillness, tenderness, and intimacy. The paintings carve a sense of quiet out of organic shapes, suggested rhythms, and muted oil colors. The drawings distill a moment within the brevity of a mark, an inquiring edge of charcoal, and traces of oil pastels on white paper. A dragged line or fleshy blob of peach leans towards spatial landscape or figuration. Inside a world of cacophonous noise, the work claims a space of openness, listening, and vulnerability. It holds an invitation to pause long enough to suspend thoughts, to notice the tender, quiet, subtle perceptions of this moment. The work is in a wordless conversation about embodied presence, attentive seeing, beauty, sensuality, inner worlds, and the poetry of silence. From
my birth in Peru to deeply religious Argentinian parents, to living
in Uruguay, Argentina, Switzerland, Mexico, and seven US states, my
work is a centering of calm inside a constant state of change. The paintings
and drawings explore how a work of art can become a soundless act of
resonance and grace. |
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Lisie S. Orjuela intentionally slows down her creative practice, to be present, to be open, and to allow for the subtle relationships of shapes and nuanced variations of colors to lead the way. Thinking, feeling, sensing, and processing along with the fleshy physicality of oil paint, the lusciousness of the colors, the crunchiness of the charcoal, and the awkward relationships of the shapes, each drawing, each painting begins to take shape. In her Port Chester, NY studio attentively layers each painting over several months. Lisie S. Orjuela’s heritage and influences come from a mix of cultures, visual experiences, and living rhythms stemming from her Argentinian roots and from the variety of places she has lived in: Uruguay, Switzerland, Mexico, and seven states within the United States. Orjuela has held solo exhibitions at The Rye Arts Center in Rye, NY; Moira Fitzsimmons Art Gallery in Hamden, CT; Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA; Edit Gallery in Richmond, VA; Marie Louise Trichet Art Gallery in Litchfield, CT; Port Washington Public Library in Port Washington, NY; and Ulla Surland Gallery II in Fairfield, CT. She has also had two-artists exhibitions at UConn Stamford Art Gallery in Stamford, CT and Scott & Bowne in Kent, CT, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Artist Website:
https://www.lisieorjuela.com/ |
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