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Ana Martínez Orizondo

Ana Martínez Orizondo (AMO) is a Cuban born, self-taught visual artist, poet & writer living between Doral, Florida and Shelter Island, N.Y. She has exhibited in group shows at The Painting Center, View Center for Arts and Culture, East End Arts, The Curator’s Salon and Visionary Arts Collective, among others. She collaborated with fashion designer, Gabriela Hearst on her Fall Winter 2022 collection and was the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Chequit, Shelter Island with a solo show of over twenty-five pieces from her Tree Stories series. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA).Her work resides in private collections and has been featured nationally and internationally in Vogue Mexico & Latin America, Orion Magazine, The Cut, Cottages & Gardens, Shelter Island Reporter, Art Seen Magazine, and The Hopper Magazine among others.She is also a published poet and writer.  Her poem, The Snake and the Eagle was a finalist for the Philadelphia Stories Magazine 2023 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry. Her first Chapbook won third place in the Finishing Line Press 2022-2023 Chapbook Competition and is slated for publishing in 2024.  She holds an MA in Liberal Arts from FIU and a BA in Latin American Literature and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

I am a Cuban born visual artist and writer dividing my time between N.Y.C, Miami, and Shelter Island, NY.​ Whether I work with soft pastels on recycled cotton rag paper (shizen paper), acrylic on canvas, iPhoneography or video, under the umbrella of ecology and spirituality, I explore liminality, animism, cosmic memory, divine feminine, and transformation. My tree stories series are abstract works inspired by trees I photograph during meditative walks and explore the idea of trees as receptacles of time; divine protectors of souls. Bark lines as cosmic hieroglyphics, a teaching to decipher. It is my hope that, through my art, I bring awareness to the climate crisis and awaken a sense of intimacy with our living planet. My artwork calls the viewer to see trees and all non-human forms as beings,  sacred and necessary for the health of our planet and spirit.

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