ARTISTS Explore our dedicated page showcasing the contemporary artists we represent. Our goal is to connect them with art enthusiasts and collectors. Adriana Monterrubio, covers a diverse spectrum of artistic expressions, ranging from leatherwork, natural dyes, and fibers to textiles, botany, and bio-sculpture. This comprehensive discipline draws inspiration from the coastal environment and its cultural traditions. Adriana's work beautifully blends creativity with ancestral knowledge, resulting in artworks that capture the essence and self and cultural identity. Argelia Matus (b. 1978) studied Fine Arts in Oaxaca, with workshops in illustration, drawing, and printmaking. Her work includes painting, drawing, textile experimentation, and designing utilitarian objects with gourds. In her creative process, she explores identity, body, and territory. Matus' work has been exhibited at the Museum of Oaxacan Painters, Leopoldo Méndez Gallery (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Xochimilco Unit), and Santo Domingo Cultural Center in Oaxaca. Additionally, her work has been showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Huila, Colombia, the Cultural Art Center (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater), and the Pedro Coronel Museum in Zacatecas. Johanna Palmieri (b. 1991), a self-taught painter after studying Art History at Indiana University, paints for the joy of the process. She strives to create artworks that offer the same intangible pleasure she finds in both old and new paintings. Her artistic journey led her through exploring various personal styles, drawing inspiration from earlier times for solo shows in Portland, Oregon, and the physicality of the female experience for a group show in Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2019, she had a breakthrough, discovering a new method inspired by dance performance and fueled by music, allowing her to delve into emotionally rich abstract art for the first time. Luvia Lazo (b. 1990) Photography is Lazo's way of portraying the worlds to which she belongs. Her work aims to capture reality from the perspective of the contemporary Zapotec woman, creating a constellation of images through time and spaces in Oaxaca, documenting the generational gaps and the transformation of identities across ages. Lazo is a recipient of the Jóvenes Creadores grant of the FONCA 2020 (National Fund for the Culture of the Arts, Mexico) and inaugural recipient of the Indigenous photo grant 2021 supported by Leica and Photoville. Sandra De León Torres (b. 1985). Lives and works in Guatemala City. Sandra De León Torres is an artist and graphic designer born in Guatemala in 1985. In her country she studied drawing, painting and design. She has developed her style practicing and learning different disciplines and techniques like oil, acrylic, watercolor, engraving art, photography and sculpture. She developed these techniques in Guatemala and Madrid and also studied applied visual arts in Escola Massana of Barcelona. Sandra utilizes deconstruction as a philosophical method in her artistic practice and it is through this lens that she contemplates daily elements in her surroundings. From there, she creates a universe of forms through paintings and sculptures that attempt to simplify and decode the individual language that habitats her memory. She obtained two masters in Advanced Typography in EINA, UAB, Barcelona and a third one in Communication Strategy Direction in IED - European Institute of Design, UB, Barcelona. Founded Sade.Studio, a design studio that specializes in art direction and graphic design. Has worked on projects and art exhibits in Guatemala, Switzerland, France, UK, Spain, Honduras, Mexico and the US in collaboration with distinguished galleries, artists, curators and designers.