Aixa Oliveras

Transmutation
Oil on linen panel
11 x 10

Aixa Oliveras is a representational artist whose focus is contemporary symbolist painting. She has participated in several group exhibitions including Abend Gallery in Denver, Colorado and Q Art Salon in Santa Ana, California. One of her paintings is also included in the prestigious Reyes-Veray Collection in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Born in Puerto Rico, Aixa holds an MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design and a BFA Magna Cum Laude, from the School of Plastic Arts and Design in Puerto Rico. Her work is collected both in Puerto Rico and the United States. She currently resides in Laguna Beach, California.  

Artist Statement

 I paint in order to process the events of my life. My work is a mirror of my internal emotional state: a reflection of the interior workings of my mind. My primary subject matter is the female figure, paired with pattern and symbolic use of color. The rhythm of the figures in my compositions echoes the ebb and flow of life itself. As a contemporary symbolist, I take my own personal experiences and transmute them into a symbolic language. It is a language of archetypes that transforms the personal into the universal. Taken together, my paintings are a study of what it means to let go of one previous identity in order to create a new one. It is my own personal narrative of what it means to be reborn. With each piece I create, I strive to give the viewer an emotionally resonant visual experience – something akin to that moment of “flow” that I experience when I create. Ultimately, my goal and philosophy as an artist is to explore the rich landscape of what it means to be human.