"No Flowers Wither in the Sky" | A STREETCAR NAMED desire

Ileana Collazo | Visual Artist/Poet | Cuba/USA No Flowers Wither in the Sky | A STREETCAR NAMED desire Bern, Switzerland Group Exhibitions | 6/5 to 6/16 & 6/19 TO 6/29 2018

“The Garden of my Mind” | Manipulated Digital Self-portrait | 2018 http://icollazo.przm.com/ | Instagram@collazoileana | fivemuses@gmail.com

Artist Statement: “I take photographs - sometimes of all the obvious things that we all see, and others of things we tend to overlook - like items tossed roadside, a section of what I initially see in the frame... - then, I digitally mix and match the images to create the finished work. When I paint, I allow colors, shapes, and movement to guide me to express the language that floats inside my brain.”

Bio: ” I learned all I needed to about creating art as a young girl in my grandmother's garden - where I sat doing what as an adult I call meditating. That quiet spot became my temple. Many years passed before I began to birth the creations conceived in my early daydreams. I started to write fiction and poetry, and then my mind exploded into a galaxy of colors, shapes, and movement as I started to paint on a variety of surfaces, digitally, and then added photography and digital visual art to my artistic spectrum. My art is representative of the twists and turns we take in the course of our daily lives, and of the awe-inspiring beauty that surrounds us. My work is my gift to the world, and to everyone who falls in love with it. I was born in Cuba, and have lived in Spain, New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts. My work has exhibited in thought the United States | Cancun, Mexico | London, England | Lisbon, Portugal | Bern, Switzerland. I will exhibit in Trieste, Italy in September 2018.”

My Most Recent Commendation: “There are many good and interesting artists and artworks across the globe. Be the classical, contemporary, conceptual, sculpting, digital art, environmental, street art, anything. But some artists have an exclusive skill, and they are in the few. Ileana Collazo is in my view one of the top ten visual skills we have in our time. Her eye for composition is high in its skill. I see it even in a couple of her images as I see how the colors and visual is chosen to go together. Art schools can give a lot. Support the art in us to come out. To give us tools in creative work. But what Collazo and the few in her talents top league have is something an artist is born with or not. If you are an art collector, she is one name to definitely keep in mind.” – Sini Kunnas | Artist | Art Advisor | Public Speaker | Helsinki, Finland

Alternate Landscapes | Digital Art Created through Integration |Limited Edition Series Statement: The search for other worlds is an integral component of the human condition. How can we be the only ones floating alone in such a vast universe? As I careen through space miraculously attached to our tiny planet by an unseen force, I look up at the sky and wonder. "Alternate Landscapes" are interpretations of my other worlds daydreams.

“Alternate Landscapes 1” | 2017 | 24 x 24 in. | 60.96 x 60.96 cm | Printed on Aluminum

“Alternate Landscapes 7” | 2017 | 24 x 24 in. | 60.96 x 60.96 cm | Printed on Aluminum

The Others | Manipulated Digital Photography | Limited Edition of 7Series Series Statement: There must be others; if we cannot see them, we can certainly, at times, sense them hovering around us.

“Out of the Mist 1” | 2017 | 12 x 12 in | 30.48 x 30.48 cm | Printed on Aluminum

“Into the Darkness 1” | 2017 | 12 x 12 in | 30.48 x 30.48 cm | Printed on Aluminum

“Out of the Mist 2” | 2017 | 12 x 12 in | 30.48 x 30.48 cm | Printed on Aluminum

“Into the Darkness 2” | 2017 | 12 x 12 in | 30.48 x 30.48 cm | Printed on Aluminum

“Into the Darkness 3” | 2017 | 12 x 12 in | 30.48 x 30.48 cm | Printed on Aluminum

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