Antithetical to its name, most of the works in Summer Light include black-and-white images of oceans and skies—conceptual, photographic interventions that strip away color to reveal the haunting artifice of…
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Essays On Light is a series of six short videos executed during my time at the Edward Albee Foundation in 2014. Is a collaboration with Ivan Naranjo as a sound…
At times, this series evokes the spectral grids of Agnes Martin, or the poetically arranged textiles of Eva Hess—but the works in Ortega’s “Notebook” series have a more gothic, informational…
Black is the conspicuous feature unifying Iliana Ortega’s series of images -- a series I am tempted to call, after Goya, las imágenes negras. Although trained as a painter, Ortega…
Originally conceived as drawings, Ortega now understands these works as interdisciplinary paintings. Inkjet prints—a format usually reserved for photography—are printed in total black, then treated with tape, pencil, crayon, and…
“Beuys Drawings” is a series of ink drawings on Japanese paper created in 2006-07. I am interested in how the ink in conjunction with the transparency of the Japanese paper…
