Exhibition Title: Ceremonias
Artist: Pia Ortuño
Dates: 09/13/2025 – 10/18/2025
Opening Reception: 9/13/2025 Saturday, 6-8pm
Venue: Make Room, 6361 Waring Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: makeroom.la
Exhibition Description:
Make Room is proud to present Ceremonias, a new collection of works by Costa Rican born, London based artist Pia Ortuño. This is the first solo exhibition for the artist with the gallery and in the United States.
As a sculptor and painter working in abstraction, Ortuño embraces improvisation – her works cracking and evolving into unpredictable natural patterns. Paired with spiritual symbols, the result establishes a sense of duality inherent in form and meaning. The pieces hold onto their physicality as objects, formed and moved by human hands, and resist becoming simply a visual illusion. One can see the lines between each block of wood, creating an array of fissures out of which pours the brightness of the marble dust, like cracks in the surface of volcanic rock.
Please find High-Resolution work images and flyers here:
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