Estudios en la Universidad Americana de Roma, Roma, Italia. Septiembre 2004 – Diciembre 2005
Licenciaturas en Historia del Arte y Artes Plásticas (Especialización en Pintura)Summa Cum Laude por la Universidad de San Diego, San Diego, CA, EUA. Enero 2005 – Mayo 2009
Ha tenido 5 exposiciones colectivas en La Universidad de San Diego, San Diego, en 2007, 2008, y 2009, una exposición individual en la Galería de Artes Visuales en la Universidad de San Diego, Mayo 2009 y una exposición individual en la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Ciudad de México, México, Individuación: Reflexiones, Agosto 2009 – Septiembre 2009.
"My paintings are not statements or facts, but questions and moments of clarity in a path of human exploration. A path that although is different in terrain, length and climate for each person, it is also identifiable by others given its foundation in the human drive for meaning."
Tatiana Ortiz Rubio
What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face. M.K.Gandhi
Tatiana’s Ortiz Rubio’s is a young visual artist exploring an ancient vision of creation. Her recent series of paintings The Creation Of The Individual is a reflection on the intellectual, spiritual and emotional experiences that contribute to the formation of our personal and collective identities. Her images are subtle, complex and compelling; leaving the viewer with many more questions than answers. Her elegant and well-crafted paintings reference a Classical grandness in their scale and compositions. Yet, the paintings contain a psychological agitation that makes them ill at ease within the unchanging structures of Classicism. A persistent feeling of restiveness, evident in all of Tatiana’s work, positions her paintings solidly in the Romantic tradition of image making. This tradition, in both the Visual Arts and Literature continues to focus on the individual’s exploration of the unseen and our personal grappling with the unattainable.
The sense of unease that Tatiana presents in her artwork grows from a desire to develop images that reflect on the dynamic relationship between the ongoing self-construction of identity and the sense of cultural / familial belonging that is often imposed on us. Each image in her series presents the viewer with an incomplete fragment of a larger whole that remains to be realized. Slowly, thoughtfully and carefully Tatiana’s Ortiz Rubio weaves together multiple threads of questions that invite us to look “face to face” at the God within us; a restless “God” eternally creating and recreating itself.
Prof. John Halaka
San Diego, California
August 2009
