And so it goes...

Gabriela Garza Padilla

Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
www.gabrielagarzapadilla.com
E-mail: BelaShine@gmail.com
E-mail: arte@gabrielagarzapadilla.com
Latin America     www.artedemundo.com
Miami
www.collectionprivee.com
Tokio                 
www.promo-arte.com
Amsterdam www.imaginaryrealism.com

www.ammonragallery.com

  Top Ten most visited artist of the leading art web site in Latin America
www.artedemundo.com
Here, Gabriela shares space in realist painting category with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Varo, Carrington, Dalí and Botero, among others.
The web site launching was in sept 2002 in The Rufino Tamayo Museum in México City.

In 2001 was included in the art book “Art, a Latin American Vision”, published in Miami.

In 2002 “The Investor”  (“El Inversionista”) magazzine nationwide (Mexico) presented Gabriela’s work as an excellent investment option.

Born 6th October 1965 in Monterrey, N.L., México.

Highschool Studies specialized in Mathematics and Physics, ITESM, 1982

Bachelor Degree in Communication Sciences in Monterrey Institute of Technology and Superior Studies, ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, 1986

She worked four years in the corporate world as Chief of Human Resources Planning and Corporate Communications.
In  1990
she mounted her first studio
and began to paint and to exhibit and sell her works.

Since that year, she have had 17 solo exhibitions in México, USA and Japan, and has participated in more than thirty group shows in México, Honduras, France, USA, Canada and Japan.

www.imaginaryrealism.com  my inclusion in the Dreamscape 3 Book in 2008.
In 2008 she was considered a master in the imaginary realism and is included in the renowned Art Book "Dreamscape 3 2008"

In water began life and into her it multiplies. Since the darkness of the beginnings and the humidity of women, is always the birth and the creation of bodies…of ideas that manifest anything. Mind and uterus. Abismal depths. Watery worlds. Woman painter. Sorcerer.  I invoke through my colors and drawings the veiled mystery of being, of being alive and transform our reality.

The painter who paint a reality that changes with the solely presence of the witness. Quantum pshysics. The laboratory description of Faith. Pure spirituality. Ancient wisdom. And I paint myself  thinking, like the mirror in front of another mirror. Endless path. Waves in the universal pond.

I am the restless weaver using the threads that put together all that exists. Consciousness. We all are more than to what the eyes perceive. And I use symbols, archetypes and colors to speak directly not to the eyes and consciousness of  people, but to the deepest mind that rests in the bottom of everything.

The characters are me and the others. Finally the others are me and I live into the others. Characters always thinking, with their minds stretched, jeweled, embellished, reaching the hights  -or abyss- where all is created.
Reminds us that we all are the creators of this life, of its sparkles and mirages. I am back. I am here once again and  this endless yearning of being a magician and manifest forms through the lines and colors have impelled me to form another body  and introduce myself to the world as a painter woman.

Let me celebrate The Being, The Witness, The Thinker.

Gabriela Garza-Padilla
Miami 2007

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“DREAMS ON PEARLS & ROSES”, May 2006
Collection Privee Gallery
Miami Beach, Fl. USA
www.collectionprivee.com

“ETERNAL”. (“EIEN”) 12th Nov-12th Dec  2004
Promo-Arte, Latin American Art Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan.
www.promo-arte.com

“DÉJÁ VÚ”. May 2004
Nuevo León University, UANL,
Monterrey, México.

“ONIRISMOS” (RELATED TO DREAMS). Dec 2001.
Arte, A.C. Monterrey, México.

“VISIONARY”. May 2001.
Scénic Gallery. Torreón, México.

“VISIONARY”. Nov 2000.
Vértice Gallery
Guadalajara, México.

“SACRED WATER”. May 2000.
Art Dealers Gallery, Monterrey, México.

“COLORS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS”.  Nov 1998.
La Maison Dubrocq Gallery. Sarasota, Florida, USA.

“ZOOMOS”. Nov 1997.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey, México.

“THE LIGHT”. Aug 1996.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey, México.

“BETWEEN PRAYERS AND CANDLES”. Aug 1993.
Santa Catarina Cultural Hall, Monterrey, México
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“THE MAGIC MIRROR”. July 1993.
IMNRC, A.C.  (Mexican and Northern American Institute of Cultural Affairs ), San Nicolás de los Garza, Monterrey, México.

“SUPRAVISIONES”. Jun 1993.
Collage Gallery, Monterrey, México.

“GREEN SEEING”.  May 1993.
IMNRC,A.C. (Mexican and Northern American Institute of Cultural Affairs)  Monterrey, México.

“GODS”. Nov 1991.
Guanajuato University, Guanajuato, México.

“BEINGS AND PLACES”. Nov 1990.
Durango Cultural Hall, Durango, México.

“GABRIELA GARZA PADILLA, PAINT EXHIBITION”. July 1990.
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel, Monterrey, México.

 

GROUP SHOWS

Dreamscape 3 Exhibition
Amsterdam
Nov-Dec 2008

“ NEO-SURREALISM IN LATIN AMERICA.
GABRIELA GARZA PADILLA ET AL”
2005
Promo-Arte Gallery
Tokyo, Japan

THE 6TH LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION “TODAY”
2005
Promo-Arte Gallery
Tokyo, Japan.

“AMISTAD” . Oct 18th –Nov 15th 2004
Art Works Gallery in collaboration with The Mexican Government
Celebration of 60 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and México.
Vancouver, BC, Canadá

EXPO-AUCTION. July 2001.
Metamorfosis Gallery, Puerto Vallarta, México.

“RENAISSENCE 2000”. Apr 2000.
Art Dealers Gallery, Monterrey, México.

“CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ART”. March 1999.
La Maison Dubrocq Gallery, Sarasota, Florida, USA.

“ LATINO ART”. Jun 1998.
La Maison Dubrocq Gallery, Sarasota, Florida, USA.

“SELF-PORTRAITS”. Dec 1997.
Arte, A.C. Monterrey, N.L. México.

“GUADALUPANA”. Diciembre de 1997.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey, México.
EXHIBITION & AUCTION to benefit a catholic monastery.
Nov 1997.
Monterrey Country Club

EXHIBITION to benefit “Chipinque”  an ecological reserve.
July 1997.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey,  México

EXHIBITION to benefit a government organization that helps abused childs.
Apr 1997.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey, México.

“GUADALUPANA”. Dec 1996.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey, México.

EXHIBITION to benefit a catholic monastery.
Nov 1996.
Monterrey Country Club

“VIVA MÉXICO”. Sep 1996.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey, México.

“GUADALUPANA”. Dec 1995.
Villa Amadeus Galleries, Monterrey,México.

“SALON DE AUTOMNE”. Oct 1995.
Museé D´’Art Moderne de Unet, Tonneins, Francia.

“GRAND PRIX D’ AQUITAINE”. Sep 1995.
Museé D’Art Moderne de Unet, Tonneins, Francia.

“GRAND PRIX DU SUDOUEST ART PLASTIQUE”. Aug 1995.
Museé D’Art Moderne de Unet, Tonneins, Francia.

“BIENNAL D’AQUITAINE”. July 1995.
Museé D’Art Moderne D’Unet, Tonneins, Francia.

“GRAND PRIX DE PARIS D’ART PLASTIQUE”. May 1995.
Fondation Napoleon. Capilla de la Sorbona, Paris, Francia.

“AYUDARTE “, (“To help you” in spanish ends with the suffix: “arte”  that means “art”  Apr 1995.
Nuevo León Goverment.

“GROUP SHOW”. Feb 1994
“ Plus” Contemporary Art Gallery, Monterrey, México.

“THIS WOMAN PROPOSAL IS...” Feb 1994.
Spaniard and Latin Art Festival, Holguín, Cuba.

“GROUP SHOW”. Dec 1993.
“ Plus” Contemporary Art Gallery, Monterrey, México.

“GROUP SHOW”. Oct 1993.
Spaniard and Latin Art Festival, Holguín, Cuba.

“MONTERREY’S ARTISTS SHOW””. Aug 1993.
San Pedro Sula Museum of Fine Arts, Honduras. CA.

“MONTERREY’S ARTISTS SHOW”. Apr 1993.
San Antonio, Texas, USA.

“GROUP SHOW”. Feb 1993.
Museum of Fine Arts, Brownsville, Texas, USA.

“CANDELABRUMS”. Dec 1991.
Mesón del Gallo Gallery, Monterrey, México.

“EXPO-ART 1991”. Dec 1991.
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel, Monterrey, México.

“YOUNG ART FROM NUEVO LEON IN MEXICO CITY”. Sep 1991.
Universidad de las Américas, México, D.F.

“LATIN AMERICAN ART”. Feb 1991.
Los Toldos Gallery, Monterrey, México.

GROUP SHOW. July 1990.
Arte, A.C. Monterrey, México.

COMMENTS & CRITICS

Gabriela Garza-Padilla is an artist that speaks not only with the colors and lines in her works, but with her soul. Her works are full of spirituality, full of the power that is beyond the conscious world that is perceived with our ordinary senses. In twenty years of career she has exhibited her works in Mexico, Canada, Central America, Europe, Japan and the USA, and has been deemed at The Forefront in Neo-Surrealism in Latin America.

Amira Saadat, owner of Collection Privee Gallery, Miami Beach www.collectionprivee.com


Gabriela Garza-Padilla is a mexican artist that has inherited the magic of the surreal vision that once permeated this land with the presence of Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. (...) She is the continuity and renovation of the surreal, and the magic of Mexico. She is the one that embraces this magic and shows  it to the world.

Jose Roquero de Teresa, Art Critic and President of artedemundo.com, Mexico City May 2008

“What one of a kind imagination that exists inside this artist’s mind! The interpretation of her work is completely full of quality, symbolism, and intense passion in the realm of the visual arts.”
Jose Roquero y de Teresa
Membre de l’Association Internacionale des Critiques D’Art
Paris, France 2006

“Femininity shaping in pure, vibrate colors, with a huge domain of the blues; enigma, mystery, eyes; fishes, salamanders, felines; harlequins, magicians and, over all, the woman: one and the same artist who is another and all women and sometimes angel, high priestess, demon, constant elements of Garza Padilla’s work that she uses to capture the dreams and subconscious universe”
Martha Ramos,  Milenio Newspaper
Monterrey, 2001

“Dream interpretations where strange and distant places appear, beautiful beings full of symbols, apparitions where it is possible to read the soul thorough the eyes.
Like a gypsy or a sorcerer, or rather an alchemist…is Gabriela Garza Padilla (…)The Tarot Symbology appeared as a clarifying reference(…) is the secret language in which Gabriela’s work move on, never leaving any element to chance.
With a magic realism caring in every detail, the artist sail in the line that divides the real world from the dreaming one (…) Gabriela knows and masters the human gestures (…) Salvador Dalí, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington…and the Renaissence Masters are Gabriela’s artistic influences, who express an enormous sensibility in her work”.
Francisco Armenta, Mural Newspaper
Guadalajara, Jal. 2000

“A woman with a great inner strength, who shows her life philosophy through the images she paints in the canvas, this way is Gabriela Garza Padilla. The artist, who possess an innate talent to paint human figures in oil with an exquisite shocking precision, arrives this millennium surrounded with triumphs along her ten years of painting, and willing to continue in this art guided by her dreams.”
Lilián de la Rosa,  El Norte Newspaper,
Monterrey, 2000.

“Extraordinary. She have had acquired the technique domain and she knows how to express in the correct way. Her work is very original and is quite difficult to classify…maybe into the “Magic Realism”.
Art Critic,
Maestro Giancarlo von Nacher Malvaioli.
Monterrey, 2000.

“Gabriela Garza Padilla is one of our leading artists who deserves recognitions of every kind. Her work is extraordinary”
Roberto Chapa Zárate,
Glass artist
Monterrey, 2000.

“Her work, full of colouring and magic is wonderful”

Patricia Caswell

President Art Council, Sarasota, Florida, USA,
ExPresident Art  Council, New York City.
Florida, USA, 1998.

“Gabriela’s work is a rare surrealism, fresh…an original surrealism”

Marcia Corbino

Art Critic,
Florida, USA, 1998.

“Dream, fantasy, her past experiences, events and people who surround her are the sources that nurture Gabriela’s iconography”

Ricardo Milla

 El Norte Newspaper
Monterrey, 1998.

“Sealed with magic surrealism, Gabriela is going to exhibit her work where she puts her endless imagination.”

Bertha Wario

 El Norte Newspaper

Monterrey, 1998.

“Her work tends to border that exquisite line between vigil and dream. She comes back from that border world and captures in the canvas those fragile instants of her mysterious and magical state; under a real appearance (real and fantastic) she reinvent that hallucinating paranormal phenomena into a “new reality” idealized –and logical- into her logic.
World inhabited most of the time with self-portraits that contemplates us with an astonished expression from magically  “real” dimensions.
An artist that seems express herself not only with her hands, but with her eyes and mind. In this order, only knowing her we’ll be able to decode.”

Eduardo Rodríguez Canales

Crítico de Arte
Monterrey, 1997.

“Her work is not trivial as another artist’s works that shares the Magic Realism with Gabriela. Her work have another forces. Her self-portraits neither are they as the psychological ego enhancers of others artists, in her work is a feeling of  a more heavy and profound mystic.”

Breves Culturales

Periódico El Norte,
Monterrey, 1996

“Absolutelly is about a woman who knows what she wants and above all, loves what she is doing, leaving in every painting  “a lot” of her essence. Her work have a great emotional charge, that makes every painting “speak” as she says.