Gabriela Esquivel

Artist Statement

"Resting in my most intimate spaces I meditate on the phrase "the personal is universal". From this moment on I can justify the sharing of my intimacy: my most sublime spaces and my inner heavens. My heavens, which can also be your heavens, are the place where I'm born again and I'm able to become one with the divine. It is in this space filled with peace, sound and color where I find heaven on earth. In the midst of this sharing of light is how I experience the most sublime freedom!"

About

Gabriela Esquivel was born in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1981. Since her early years she studied painting and music. In 1999 she lived in Germany and Switzerland, where she received lessons in painting, singing, and German. She moved to Puerto Rico in 2005. In 2010 she obtained a Bachelor of Art in Sculpture and two minors, Motion Pictures and Fashion Design, from the School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico. In 2015 she obtained a second Bachelor of Art in Humanistic Studies with emphasis in Music from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. Since 2005 she has worked on acrylic on canvas. She participated in the X Florence Biennale, Italy and in Spectrum, Miami 2015. She has also participated in various group exhibitions a...

B.A. in Humanistic Studies (Valedictorian); Minor in Music
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico

B.A. in Sculpture (Valedictorian); Minors in Image & Movement and Fashion Design;
School of Fine Arts of Puerto Rico San Juan, Puerto Rico

Studies in Business Administration and Music
University of Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica

Goethe Institut
Studies in advanced German Boppard and Murnau, Germany

2017
Village Design Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale
2016
"Into the Light, Out of the Dark",
Broward Art Guild, Fort Lauderdale
"Art Squared", Broward Art Guild,
Fort Lauderdale
"Caribeñas", Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico
"Expohistoria", Galeria Nacional, Museo de los Niños, Costa Rica

2015
Florence Biennale, Italy
Spectrum, Miami

2014
"From the Mystic to the Abstract"
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2013
Botello Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010
“Introspección y Reflejo”, National Gallery, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Photography Exhibition, School of Fine Arts, Puerto Rico

2009
“Moment to Exhibit the Ego”, Sculpture Annual Exhibition, School of Fine Art of Puerto Rico
“Thanatos and Narciso", Ballet Concierto, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008
“Hear, what you see? Sculpture Annual Exhibition, School of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2005
“Habla el Profeta”, Art Performance, Gothic Room, Old San Juan Cathedral, Puerto Rico