The Lover, 2020, oil pastels on 19 x 25 paper

We Need One Another

Like a tree in the forest, you were born to be a unique, individual expression and a member of a collective at the same time - creating something larger and more meaningful than the sum of its parts. 

I believe meaning and connection is available to all of us. It can be experienced when we allow ourselves to express ourselves, without apology or self-judgement.
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When we nurture the seeds of creative expression together, we create a regenerative, cultural eco-system that allows us, you, me and the Universe, to thrive.

Collaboration with Gabriela Hearst

Tree stories

BIO

​Ana Martínez Orizondo is a Cuban born visual artist and writer living in Doral, Florida and Shelter Island, NY. 

Self-taught, Ana has exhibited in group shows in New York and online with East End Arts, RIVAA Gallery, View Center for Arts and Culture, The Curator’s Salon, Visionary Art Collective and others.  In 2021 she collaborated with fashion designer, Gabriela Hearst on her Fall Winter 2022 Collection.  Most recently, she was the inaugural artist-in-residence at The Chequit, Shelter Island with a solo show of selected works from her Tree Stories series.

​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, EcoTheo Review and The Hopper Magazine among others.

In addition to her art practice, Ana is a lover of words. In the late nineties, she founded Words and Music, a bilingual literary and musical monthly event held during Coral Gables Gallery Night to promote local artists.  Her short story and poems have appeared in Newtown Literary,  The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism and From Whispers to Roars among others. She won third place in the 2022/2023 Chapbook Competition by Finishing Line  with her first chapbook, That Place. She is currently working on her first bilingual poetry collection.
 
She holds an MA in Liberal Arts from Florida International University and a BA in Latin American Literature and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. 

​MEET THE ARTIST : INTERVIEW in Cottages & Gardens

Artist Statement

Whether I work with soft pastels on recycled cotton rag paper (shizen paper), acrylic on canvas, iPhoneography or video, 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 breathing bodies, receptacles of time; divine protectors of souls.  I see 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.

Contact

Photo by Lorin Klaris

CREATIVE CV*

EDUCATION
2006 MA in Liberal Arts from Florida International University
1986 BA in Latin American Literature and Communications from the University of Pennsylvania
1982 Liberal Arts, Bard College
Additional:
2022 Bilingual poetry workshops with Silvina Lopez Medin
2021 Fall - Orion's Environmental Writer's Workshop with Francisco Cantu, Orion Magazine
2021 Fall - Universe Story & Earth Community: The Cosmology of Thomas Berry, CIIS
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: SOLO SHOW:
2022 Tree Stories Series: Selected Works, The Chequit Hotel, Shelter Island, N.Y.
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GROUP SHOWS:

2022
 Flowers, Trees and Roots: The Wild World of Plants, national juried show, View Center for Arts & Culture, Old Forge, NY
 50 Reasons Why,  open juried exhibition, East End Arts, NY
"Break of Day, Edge of Night," juried show, The Painting Center, NYC 
 Thinking in Systems, "What's Next for Earth Project," Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere, Stanford University Arts

​2021
ARTSI Group Show, Dirt Beauty Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
Collapse Online Exhibition, "What's Next for Earth Project," Stanford University Arts 
 The Autumn Exhibition, The Curator's Salon online exhibit 
Inner Power, Art Queens, online exhibit
When Words Fail, Visionary Art Collective, online exhibit curated by Grace Langl
Reverie, The Purposeful Mayonnaise, online exhibit
Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres, Raices Taller 222, online exhibit
Artists of Shelter Island, Shelter Island Island Historical Society, Shelter Island, N.Y.
2020
Vernissage XIX, group show, Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y.
2019
Unexpected, group show, Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y. 
Time, group show, Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y.

​PRESS:
2022 "Meet the Artist," Cottages & Gardens, August 16, 2022
2022 Art Seen: The Curator's Salon Magazine Autumn 2022
2022 The Chequit Marks 150 Years, WWD
2022 "Chequit gets ready for its close-up: Tavern opens, art show launched," Shelter Island Reporter
2022 "Conexion Arborea," Vogue Mexico & Latin America, April 
2022 The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Volume 1, Issue 5
2021 Orion Magazine
2021 Plantain Bark I, nominated in the visual category for the Best of the Net Anthology by Hopper Magazine
2021 EcoTheo Review Autumn 2021
2021 The Hopper magazine Issue 6
2021 Artist Talk Magazine Issue 15
2021 "Ana Martinez finds deep beauty in island life," Around Town, Shelter Island Reporter, Feb 18, 2021

​COLLABORATIONS:
Gabriela Hearst Fall Winter 2022 Collection
Gabriela Hearst BLOG 
​PRESS
"Conexion Arborea," Vogue Mexico & Latin America, April 2022
​Shelter Island Reporter, Feb. 24, 2022
Milano Finanza
V Magazine
The Cut
​Harper's Bazaar
Vogue Runway
WWD
British Vogue
 NYFW
Design and Culture by Ed
​Harper's Bazaar Brazil
L'Officiel Italia
Vogue Mexico
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WRITING
Poetry:
That Place,  third place winner of the 2022/2023 Chapbook Competition by Finishing Line Press
a delay in your routine, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, April 2023, Issue 35
​Earth-Root, Newtown Literary, Issue 15 Winter 2019
La Nada, The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2019
I am Transparent, From Whispers to Roars Volume 1 Issue 2 2018
Convergence III, Honorable Mention Haiku Contest, Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine,
Issue 1 2018
Short Story:
Apparition on Elmhurst, Newtown Literary, Issue 13 Fall 2018
Essay:
Sand-painting Silence, Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, 2007
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Stepping Stones, From Whispers to Roars Volume 1 Issue 2 2018
NYC Skyline, Honorable Mention, Fusion Art Juried Show 2018
First Place: Best in Architecture, @VisitTaos @Travel New Mexico Instagram contest/ June 2018

COMMUNITY BUILDING & COACHING
2021 Badass Art Queens panelist, online talk, Art Queens
Spring 2021 Dream Retreat,  thirteen weekly online session for clients who want guidance, clarity and accountability in regards to their dreams and goals.  
One-on-One coaching - Context, clarity and strategy. 

MEMBERSHIP: 
East End Arts
​The Art Queens
​Latinx Art Collective

*Prior to my visual art career, I was Vice President, Institutional Advancement at Hostos Community College, CUNY / Executive Director of the Hostos Community College Foundation and an Emmy award winning television producer.