ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Ana Milena Tamara was born in the tropics, near the sea, in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. Disturbed from small geometrical shapes, color and space, begins her painting classes where it relates to techniques, textures and composition relationships within a painting. From there his life will create areas of light and decoding images for DMEPOS and create beautiful spaces.

He studied architecture and graduated with honors in Interior Design of the Autonomous University of the Caribbean in Colombia where he continued his training in painting at the same time joins his alma mater to teach design, color theory and painting techniques. In the years subsequent to the University, the human figure and still life will be your main aesthetic proposal.

In 1994 he decided to have a change and moved to Miami in the United States. Work with taste and discipline in obedience to his paced and artistic sense and embarks on the abstraction for a decade.

In 2009 he meets with realism and works hard to follow methods and techniques of classical tradition with inspiration from artists such as Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, Gustave Courbet, John Singer Sargent and Jean Francois Millet.

"I do not care what concept, symbolism and social messages. What I want is to solve an aesthetic problem of light, shape and color. " Its origin comes from different aesthetic paths but say they have never followed the vanguard. Not assumed to be hyper-realistic painter but think your aesthetic side joins a simple and classical realism where the work is nothing but the lively response to the actual elements, interpreted in light and color. Everything comes from what surrounds us in everyday life. Once made the table must surrender and awaken the senses to get the message light and shadow.

It combines the classic realism of the Renaissance era with the spirit and spontaneity of contemporary art and restart the physical composition of still life to form a unit controlled plastic, surrounded by a chromatic atmosphere with the intention of projecting emotions linked to sensuality and pleasure. They mix the shapes and color. Everything there looks, smells and texture. Reach the canvas, pears, melons, peaches ... .... Of various shapes and colors.

Tamara plays with shadows, colors, light, composition, volumes and atmospheres. Objects are an excuse to get in a plastic world and find ways sensual, serene spaces, rhythmic lines ... .. and transform them into beauty.

Tamara lives in Key Biscayne and is dedicated full time to his painting from his studio in Coral Gables, Florida in the United Together.