About Teodora Guererra
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.
“As an artist, painting can be tormenting and sublime at the same time. I'm a big risk taker, experimenting with different materials to layer, stain and saturate color on large canvases. My most successful work achieves a sense of fluid movement with saturated color, that is complex yet minimalistic. The end result should be a painting that dances across the canvas and quiets all the noise.”
Guererra received her undergraduate and graduate Art degrees from Southern Connecticut University, The College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College.
Guererra’s 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.
Her influences are Pat Steir, John McCracken, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Jud, Bernar Venet, Agnes Martin and Brian Rutenberg.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“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. I’m a bit of a recluse so you will probably never meet or see me. 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.”
EDUCATION
Southern Connecticut State University, BS, Art
College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College, MS, Art
EXHIBITIONS
2008 Masters Show, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2009 Saratoga Color, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, Saratoga Springs, NY
2011 Connections, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, Albany, NY
2012 Chromacosmo, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, Albany, NY
2012 Reveal Fall, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, Albany, NY
2012 Albany Wine & Dine For The Arts, Albany, NY
2012 Albany Center Gallery Masquerade Gala, Albany, NY
2013 Chromacosmo Returns, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, Albany, NY
2013 Spectrum, Carriage Barn Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2015 Cousins in Life, Sisters in Art, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2015 Art Hamptons, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art. Bridgehampton, NY
2016 VIVID, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2017 Oceanic, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2018 Opaline, Sorelle Gallery Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
AWARDS
2013 Spectrum, 24th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, First Place Mixed Media, Betty Barker Gallery, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Allmen Health and Wellness Center for Women, New York, NY
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
DeLuca Plastic Surgery, Albany, NY
Hodes & Landy Consultants, Albany, NY
SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY
VP Facebook, New Canaan, CT
Magrino PR, NY, NY
CFO, Williams & Sonoma, San Francisco, CA
Numerous private collections
Review by Dr. Jill Deupi, Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Ballarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University -
“The depth pulls us in and dares us to look deeper. It is chasm and midnight sky, it is poplars reflected on a moonlit lake, it is rain running down a windowpane as dusk declares itself to be night. It is all of these things, and it is none of these things. Therein lies the beauty of this chromatically intense and artfully executed work.”
