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Overview
The drawings and paintings of Laura López Balza (Santander, 1984) are energetic, intimate, funny, uninhibited and sometimes sour. Through them she shows and spreads her enthusiasm for the infinite richness and variety of what is observed, lived and imagined.
Her work deals with primary emotions in a passionate and expressive way, narrating her own life experience through an inner world composed of fables in which nature, landscape or everyday life are the protagonists.They are minimal stories, remembered, imagined, lived or idealised, reflecting desires, preferences or fears, but always a hymn to the joy of living. Laura paints to see, to know and to understand. Formally, her work could be described as anti-academic, defined by a great intensity in chromatic interaction and a certain primitivism in form, which links it to positions of great transcendence in contemporary art, those that choose not to strictly respect the laws of illusionist painting in order to achieve greater expressiveness and interaction.The artist's creative process is based on her personal experience and an extraordinary sensitivity to perceive the world and all that inhabits it. Close to ancestral animism and to the traditions of symbolism, surrealism and expressionism, everything in her work is alive and magically communicates with each other. Humans, animals and all the elements of nature are placed on the same level and share sensations, supported by the vibration of her very wide chromatic palette and her intuitive compositions, far from any canon. Both colour and form are born of pure emotion, brought to the surface with a formidable freedom of expression that escapes conventionalism and manages to represent much more than what the eye sees. Her stories appeal to the emotions of each viewer and demand their full attention, as they are full of subtle details that turn each work into a device capable of transforming those who perceive it through aesthetic experience.
Her paintings recount events or sensations experienced by the artist so that they do not fade into oblivion, taking on the canvas, cardboard or paper a status of privileged moment and absolute present. This speaks to us of a precious way of understanding life, which attaches great importance to small discoveries and everyday surprises. -
Biography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES
2024. El sol que miro y me cuenta, Galería Juan Silió , Cantabria
2023. Invitación al bosque, Castillo de Argüeso, Cantabria
2022. El sueño de los dos pájaros, Galería Juan Silió, Santander
2022. Un Paseo, CreaVA 22, Valladolid
2021. Solo Project feria MARTE, La Gran, Castellón
2021. El viaje, Observatorio del Arte de Arnuero, Cantabria
2019. Pinta Miami, galería La Gran, EEUU.
2018. Pintar para ver, galería La Gran, Valladolid
2016. Mundos, Ó!Galeria, Portugal
2012. En Bruto, galería Guillermina Caicoya, Asturias
2021. Bestiario, galería Miscelanëa, Barcelona
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS
2024. Slices, Mepaintsme Gallery, EEUU
202. Feria Estampa, Galería Juan Silió, Madrid
2022. Impulso, Da2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
2022. We are not alone en The curators room, La oficina, Barcelona
2021. Still Alive, ArteSantander, Cantabria
2021. Un mundo que no existe, galería La Gran, Madrid
2019. Cuarto de invitados #1: modos de representación, galería Juan Silió, Cantabria
2018. Verde-Amarillo- Rojo, Aula Cervantes de Dakar, Senegal
2017. In/out, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
2016. Premio BMW de pintura, Centro Galileo, Madrid
2016. Otra puta feria más, Galería 6+1, Madrid
2014. Girls just want to have fun, galería Astarté, Madrid
2012. Todo empieza sin vida, Feria ArteSantander, Cantabria
2011. Del sol experiences, Galería del Sol ST, Cantabria
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES I PREMIOS Y RESIDENCIAS
2024. Residencia Nautilus Lanzarote, Islas Canarias
2023. Residencia Nautilus Lanzarote, Islas Canarias
2022. Premio de Artes Plásticas del Gobierno de Cantabri
2021. Premio adquisición UBE, feria MARTE, Castellón
2018. Residencia en La Doce, Pontevedra
2017. Leon Adriaans’s Art Residency, Holanda
2013. Beca de residencia Artistas en LAVA, Valladolid
2012. Primer premio de pintura en el Certamen Nacional de Arte Joven Pancho Cossío, Cantabria
2012. Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo Catalán, 2012- 2013, Barcelona
2010. Primer premio en el Concurso Nacional Casimiro Sainz, Cantabria
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS | OBRA EN COLECCIONES
Fundación La Gaceta, Gobierno de Cantabria, Colección Eulogio Sánchez, Colección UBE, Colección Aldebarán, Ayuntamiento de Reinosa, Ayuntamiento Camargo, Ayuntamiento de Sanxenxo, Universidad de Jaén, Colección Asociación de Periodistas de Cantabria… -
Artworks
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Laura López Balza
Espejo floral funky, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
150 x 120 cm
59 x 47 1/4 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral primaveral, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
100 x 81 cm
39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral estival, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
100 x 81 cm
39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral febrero, 2025Óleo sobre lienzo
Oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de marzo, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de abril, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de mayo, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de junio, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de julio, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de agosto, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de septiembre, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in -
Laura López Balza
Espejo floral de octubre, 2025Óleo sobre lino
Oil on linen
41 x 33 cm
16 1/8 x 13 in
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