Beatriz Jaramillo
Works by Beatriz Jaramillo address landscape as metaphor and modality, highlighting the tensions produced by the artificial separation between nature and culture, and, in the process, inviting the viewer to rethink their fractured relationship with nature. Her work has been exhibited at Royale Projects (Los Angeles), Avenue 50 Studio, The American Museum Of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Redondo Beach Power Plant, the Luckman Gallery at CSULA. In Colombia she has exhibited at Proyecta Gallery, Galeria Diners and Espacio Alterno. She has served as a Teaching Artist for the City of Commerce, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Norton Simon Museum; and as Ceramics Instructor at Cal State University LA. She is working with Self-Help Graphics and Arts to create Sinks: Places We Call Home, a project examining long-standing reservoirs of industrial pollution. Sinks is part of The Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA.
Beatriz Jaramillo’s work is an aesthetic investigation of the exterior and interior tensions produced after breaking ones’ connection with the natural world. The purpose is to create a space for dialogue inviting the viewer to rethink their relationship with nature and the environment we co-create as a society. Her practice stems from a yearning for the unspoiled natural landscape of her childhood in Colombia, with green forests and small lively creeks channeling pristine water. With the “improvements” of modern infrastructure, the clear creeks were lost and much of the vegetation destroyed. Jaramillo longs for a close connection with a world that no longer exists.
