Artist Feature: Teodora Guererra

This Saturday, April 2nd, opens our next Artist Feature, showcasing artwork by Teodora Guererra. The Feature highlights Guererra's newest series of over 20 abstract paintings. In this series, the artist uses large palette knives to move layers of washes of paint loosely across the canvas in wide, sweeping gestures. These energetic abstracts will be showcased on the main wall at Sorelle in Westport beginning until Sunday, April 17th. 

Teodora Guererra’s abstract artistic vision has evolved throughout her years spent painting and teaching in Fairfield County, Connecticut; Tucson, Arizona, and upstate New York. Arizona’s naturally radiant landscape and arid climate led her to experiment with rich under-painting and vivid color; while the shifting seasons of the East Coast inspired Guererra to pursue dripping and staining techniques. Her focus has always been pushing the limits through experimentation with new materials.

Guererra received her undergraduate and graduate Art degrees from Southern Connecticut University, The College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College. Her paintings can be found in public and private collections across the U.S., including the Allmen Health and Wellness Center for Women in New York and SUNY Brockport, NY, William & Sonoma, San Francisco, CA. She is greatly influenced by artists Pat Steir, John McCracken, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Jud, Bernar Venet, Agnes Martin and Brian Rutenberg.

“Sometimes the few people I see ask, where have you been, and I smile and say I’ve been traveling, because I’ve been in my studio for way too long," Guererra says. "I’m a bit of a recluse. My paintings are how I see the world. I’m a big risk taker, so the work can be a series of continuous failures until I can work it out. It may start with a memory, like my feet in the warm sand at the shore which becomes the essence at the start.  Then as I move my brush in gestural sweeps across the canvas and the painting starts to take shape.  I will add and scrap away layers and through this process I will find the final composition, and then, when everything comes together, it’s heaven.”

Shop Teodora's original paintings, as well as prints, in her Artist Collection.