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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Through art and community, I create opportunities to explore the deeper meaning of spirituality, identity, and belonging. 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.

Artwork

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

Ana is fascinated by trees, animism and mystical states of in-betweenness. Her tree stories series explores themes of ecology, spirituality and transformation. Specifically, she sees trunks as bodies, and bark as cosmic memory.  She is fascinated by liminal states, development in time, portals to otherness, and amorphous forms. Whether acrylic on canvas or soft pastels on cotton rag paper, Ana dwells in the push and pull of the creative process and its alchemical power.

Born in Cuba, raised in New York City with a stop in Miami, Ana returned to the Big Apple in 2017 for an executive position in higher education. After two successful careers as an Emmy award winning television producer and a non-profit executive, in 2020 she took the big leap of leaving her post to dedicate herself full-time to her art practice. She has exhibited in New York, and online with The Curator's Salon, Visionary Art Collective and others and collaborated with designer, Gabriela Hearst on her Fall Winter 2022 Collection. Her work resides in private collections and has been featured in Vogue Mexico y Latinoamerica, Orion Magazine, The Cut, Artist Talk Magazine, EcoTheo Review and The Hopper Magazine among others. 
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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.

Ana Martínez Orizondo - AMO
​Artist Statement

I am a Latinx visual artist and writer living in Shelter Island, NY.​ I work in acrylics, pastels, photography and, as an Emmy-award television producer, experiment with video shorts.

​Whether portraits, abstracts or tree stories, I am interested in the exploration of time- in- development and transformation.

For my tree stories series, I start by being present during meditative walks in nature. There, in commune with the non-human physical and psychical time-space, my senses become hyper-aware. My spirit attunes to specific forms and the stories they have to tell. I am fascinated by mystical liminal states, portals to otherness, transient time-space and amorphous forms.

The series explores themes of ecology and spirituality, belonging and meaning. Particularly, my works reference tree trunks as bodies and bark as cosmic memory. These abstract visual stories reference animism and the mystical power of trees and everything around them.  Whether a stone, stick, fungi, leaves, clouds or grass, its complete composition makes up a sacred space of transcendence and transformation. 
 
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:
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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COLLABORATIONS:
2022 Gabriela Hearst Fall Winter 2022 Collection
Gabriela Hearst BLOG 

​PRESS
"Conexion Arborea," Vogue Mexico & Latino America, April 2022
​Shelter Island Reporter, Feb. 24, 2022
Milano Finanza
V Magazine
The Cut
​Harper's Bazaar
Vogue Runway
WWD
British Vogue
 NYFW
​Harper's Bazaar Brazil
L'Officiel Italia
Vogue Mexico

​EXHIBITIONS:
2022 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
2021 Collapse Online Exhibition, "What's Next for Earth Project," Stanford University Arts 
2021 The Autumn Exhibition, The Curator's Salon online exhibit 
2021 Inner Power, Art Queens, online exhibit
2021 When Words Fail, Visionary Art Collective, online exhibit curated by Grace Langl
2021 Reverie, The Purposeful Mayonnaise, online exhibit
2021 Mujeres, Mujeres, Mujeres, Raices Taller 222, online exhibit
2021 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. 
2019 Time, group show, Gallery Rivaa, Roosevelt Island, N.Y.
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​PUBLICATIONS:
2022 "Conexion Arborea," Vogue Mexico y Latinoamerica, 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

WRITING
Poetry:
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
Sand-painting Silence, Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, 2007

Short Story:
Apparition on Elmhurst, Newtown Literary, Issue 13 Fall 2018

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: 
The Art Queens
​Latinx Art Collective

*Prior to my full-time 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.