Laura Pretto Vargas

Website: https://www.lauraprettovargas.com/

Country: USA/Brazil/Italy

Laura Pretto Vargas is a 30 y/o Italo-Brazilian artist based in Miami. Attended Istituto Marangoni Milano for Fashion Design intensive program and Fine Arts at Accademia di Belli Arti di Brera. She also worked as apprentice at Atelier Lou Borghetti (Porto Alegre/Brazil) to refine her studies and practice. Her background has always been very influential on her art; as her parents are Brazilian and Italian, these cultures naturally influenced her. She fell in love with art when she was very young, she always loved to draw and create since childhood. Many years later, creating art still is an outlet to express how she feels and its emotion. Her paintings are expressions of her imagination and memories. The subjects are often distorted, exaggerated or abstracted to convey her inner feelings or ideas. Her abstract works express shared human emotions and are made to connect with her own and other’s specific emotional life experiences, providing a space for connection and reflection. Her paintings are gestural and aesthetically similar to artworks from the Abstract Expressionist movement, the canvases are filled with highly textural brush marks and color. Her process is very intuitive, not systematic. Her artistic language seeks to express feelings of vulnerability, happiness, energy, sexuality, and so on. Her goal as an artist is to convey a message, a feeling through her art. So you don't need to understand all you see, but instead, feel something from it. In essence, her body of work is an inner narration told through her paintings.

Disturbo, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 48’’x48

Untitled, 2018. Acrylic & enamel on canvas, 67’’x39’’

Cosmos, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 48’’x36’’

Pride, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 51’’x70’’

Courage, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 47’’x63’’

Serendipity, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 48’’x72’’

Scars, 2017. Acrylic & galvanized iron on canvas, 31’’x39’’

Obsession, 2020. Acrylic on canvas, 60’’x48’’