Open Studio with New Wave Artist Ana María Velasco

Ana María Velasco will be the New Wave Artist-in-Residence at The Square through March 31st. 

Join the artist for an open studio event on March 25th from 5:30-8:30PM.

To learn more about New Wave, visit www.newwave.art.

About the Artist

Ana María Velasco (b. Columbia) creates maps that outline her travels through earthy and spiritual worlds. Her painting practice is a relational one and the dreamlike paintings and drawings stem from her need to record the seen and unseen world. La Sierra Madre de Santa Marta, the largest coastal mountain range on the planet and one of the most irreplaceable sites for conservation in the world, has been the motif and metaphor for Velasco’s artistic and personal investigation for the last decade. Through recurring engagements with this landscape, she has established an intimate relationship with the site and those who inhabit it, discovering new layers of our mutual dependence after each expedition. She often approaches Columbia, its biodiversity, its politics, and its people as a foundation for her visual vocabulary.

Velasco holds an MFA from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University and studied in La Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cali, Colombia. Her work is held in the collections of Harvard University in Cambridge; The Museum of Modern Art La Tertulia in Colombia and Bank of America. She lives and works between Brooklyn, New York and Colombia, South America.