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My practice is informed and motivated by concern for the climate crisis and frustration with the continued denial of its consequences. I create each work as a meditation on environmental loss and human responsibility. Through abstraction, material experimentation, and sculptural form, I seek to generate greater awareness of how we relate to the natural world and how our collective choices shape its future.

I focus on water as a symbol of life, memory, transformation, scarcity, and force. I am concerned about how the systems of representation and governance determine who controls water, who has access to it, and how this precious resource can be protected for future generations.

The need to modify the contiguous space and the objects in it has always emanated as an irresistible force. personal experience and changing social conditions have reshaped its expression. My early geometric abstractions have evolved into organic, visceral compositions that occupy ambiguous spaces between painting and sculpture. In this new body of work, conventional rectangular formats will break apart into irregular forms that evoke synapses, veins, organs, cells, and river systems. These interconnected structures suggest that human bodies and waterways are not separate systems but extensions of the same living ecology.

 

I have been showing my work in the Hudson Valley since moving to Kingston in 2017.

From 2022 to 2024, I served as a Kingston Art Commission Commissioner. In 2023, I chaired the Art Out Loud Youth Exhibition.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

1994-1996 NYU - NY, NY M.A.Counseling

1978-1982 Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon - Buenos Aires Argentina - MFA

1974-1978  Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano - Buenos Aires, Argentina - BFA

GRANTS & AWARDS

1982 - Exxon Corporation Fellowship

2020 - Warwick Center for the Arts - Honorable Mention 

EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2026

Trash Chic!

The Sketchbook Gallery - Saugerties, NY

2025

Cultura Viva

UNISON Art Center - New Paltz, NY

Shelf Show

Monument hv - Kingston, NY

BOUNDLESS creativity 

Reher Center Gallery - Kingston, NY

Echoes of Isolation - Art from the Pandemic 

UNISON Art Center - New Paltz, NY

Manifesting Beloved Community 2025

West Windsor Arts Council - Princeton, NJ

2024

Perspectives: Six Artists

The Gallery - Spencertown Academy Art Center 

Spencertown, NY

2023

Water Series -  A Point in Time and Space

West Strand Gallery - Kingston, NY

Water Series - Exhibicion de Arte Latino

Adriance Memorial Library - Poughkeepsie, NY

2022

UNIDOS -Exhibicion de Arte Latino

Poughkeepsie Public Library

An-AESthetics - group show

Rosekill - Kingston, NY

An-AESthetics - group show

Century House Historical Society - Rosendale, NY

Nature: Introspective Visions

West Strand Gallery - Kingston, NY

2021

Crisalidas : an installation, solo exhibition

ASK - Kingston, NY

Skin Deep, group exhibition

Olive Free Library - West Shokan, NY

Abstraction in Space and Time, group exhibition

West Strand Gallery - Kingston, NY 

Poetic License, group exhibition

ASK - Kingston, NY  Poetic License, group exhibition

2020

Gallery 40 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Hispanic Flare, group exhibition

Queen City 15 Gallery - Poughkeepsie, NY - Women, group exhibition

Poetic License - ASK, group exhibition

Stay Home Make Art - Dorsky Museum online exhibition

Warwick Center for the Arts - Warwick, RH - Abiding Courage Exhibition

ASK - Kingston, NY - Women's History Month

ArtBar Gallery - Kingston, NY - In support of Washbourne House

Emerge Gallery - Saugerties, NY - Paper Trail

WomensWork.Art Gallery -

Poughkeepsie, NY - CelebrateWomxn845  

Art Juxtapose Gallery -Rosendale, NY 

2019

Art JuXtapose Gallery - Rosendale, NY

Kingston City Hall - Sanctuary

ASK - Kingston, NY

2018

ASK - Kingston, NY

Summer 2007

Bajos de Chila, Oaxaca – Mexico

Organized, taught, and realized mural with local children at the Bajos de Chila Sports Center.

1983-1993

Exhibited in Europe, North America and Latin America

CONTACT

Isabel Cotarelo

646.509.1651

icventure@yahoo.com

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