GLORIA VELEZ
EVENTS
- Museo el Castillo.Medellin.Colombia
Acuarelas (1999)
- Several private exposition (2000 - 2005)
- St Louis Church Exhibition.Miami.USA
collective Expo ( Jun 2005)
_ Colombian Consulate.Miami.USA
Tribute to Colombian Artists ( Oct 2006)
- Teens Team-up Against Cancer Exhibition.Miami.USA
Hosted by Union Credit Bank
(May 11, 2007)
- Several private exposition (2007 - 2012)
- The Banyan art Challenge project.Miami.USA (Oct 2012)
- Touch Miami with love organization.Miami.USA
Art that feeds project (May 2013)
Bloomingdales department stores Aventura , The Falls
Fairchild tropical park
- Purim Mask artist exhibition.Miami.USA
FIU Jewish Museum of florida (Feb 2015)
- Reef Gallery at Ocean Reef Club Private Art Exhibition. Key Largo
Florida. USA . (March 2017)
- Reef Gallery at Ocean Reef Club Private Art Exhibition, Key Largo
Florida, USA "Safe the Reef" (January 2018)
- BRADICA Exhibition, Carlos and Olga Saladrigas Art Gallery in the
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School & Ignatian Center for the Arts.
(Jan 9 - Feb 12 / 2018).
- RESONATE a Polyphonic Prospect , Coral Gables Museum
Miami Florida USA ( Jun 2019)
- BRADICA Exhibition, Carlos and Olga Saladrigas Art Gallery in the
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School & Ignitian Center for the Arts.
( Jan 13 - feb 12 / 2020).
-SEW AMERICA CARES PROJECT, Mano fine art project space, Miami
Florida, USA
(Feb 21-22 / 2020).
-YESTERDAY, TODAY AND EVER, Still Life Painting Exhibition, Mifa
Gallery Miami, Florida
(Aug 5 - Sept 3/ 2021).
-INNER LANDSCAPES, In celebration of women's month, MIFA
Gallery Miami, Florida
(March 11 - March 31/2022).
-CYCLES: THE STAGES OF MOTHERHOOD, MIFA Gallery Miami,
Florida
(May 4 - 31 / 2023)
-INNER VOLUMES UNREVELED, MIFA Gallery Miami, Florida
(Sep 8 - 22 / 2023)
- HUMAN X MACHINA, MIFA Gallery Miami, Florida
( Dec 2 - Jan 27/ 2024)
- BLUE The Artistry of Hidden Faces
(Feb 3 - 28 / 2024)
- LA MUJER Y SUS CAUSAS, Consulado de Mexico en Miami
(Instituto Cultural de Mexico)
( march 20 - May 15/ 2024)
STUDIES
WITH MASTER ABDON J ROMERO
- Color Mixing Workshop (2003)
- Composition workshop (2004)
- Portrait color poster study (May 2010)
- Figure drawing anatomy workshop (July 2012)
- Cast Academy drawing workshop (Sept 2012)
- Head drawing (Oct 2012)
- Body movement workshop (May 2013)
- Alla prima portrait painting workshop (Oct 2013)
- Plain Air painting Soroya (March 2013)
- Grisalle Workshop ( May 2014)
WITH MASTER JESUS E VILLARREAL
- Academic figure painting (March 2010)
- Academic figure drawing charcoal (April 2011)
- Academic oil figure painting (June 2011)
- Academic figure drawing and still life (April-May 2012)
- Academic oil & charcoal portrait workshop (April-may 2013)
WITH ARTIST DEREK GORES
- Wet & Wild Mixed Media (Sept 2011)
- Collage Couture (Sept 2013)
WITH ARTIST JULIO SUAREZ
- Oil portrait sketch workshop (April 2012)
- Dressed Model figure drawing (oct 2012)
- Life Portrait Workshop (Jan 2013)
- Urban Landscape painting workshop ( 2014)
- Portrait painting workshop (May- 2015)
WITH ARTIST TRISTINA DIETZ-ELMES
- Multimedia Encaustic Workshop (May 2013)
- Encaustic and transfers Workshop ( Aug 2013)
WITH MASTER J.LOUIS
- Pro Class Workshop (Dec 2018)
WITH ARTIST SONIA HIDALGO
- Sculpture Mixed Media (June 2018)
- Sculpture Mixed Media (July 2019)
- Tonalism Mixed Media landscape painting (Aug 2020)
WITH ARTIST BRETT HARVEY (Sculpture)
- Building Blocks of Sculpture (Jan 2020)
PHOTOGRAPHY
- Beginner photography (Miami Dade College 2014)
- Intermedia photography (Miami Dade College 2014)
- Travel photography (Phil Lake professional photographer2015)
- Outdoor Portrait Photography (Phil Lake professional
photographer 2015)
- Macro Photography (Phil Lake professional photographer feb- apr
2016)
- Introduction to Artificial Lightning (Phil Lake professional
photographer may-jul 2016)
WITH ARTIST ELKIN CANAS:
- Color Mixing for oil ( Feb 2022)
- How to paint realista portarais from pictures (Oct 2023)
WITH MASTER RAMIRO SANCHEZ (Florence Academy Painting Artist Director)
- Live figure painting Workshop (Sep 2023)
Where there is Love
There is LIFE
Gandhi
Gloria Elena Vélez was born in Medellín- Colombia, South America. She earned her degree in Systems Engineering at Universidad E.A.F.I.T, located in her hometown of Medellin. However, since childhood, she was drawn towards the world of art in all its aspects. Her early work began in grassroots exhibits that were well received by the art community. Although her career studies took six years to complete, two years after finishing her university studies, she abandoned the field of Systems Engineering in order to pursue her true passion for the arts.
Working under the tutelage of the great Colombian artists, German Viecco, Francisco Madrid, Luis Angel Hernandez and pursuant to her course of studies at the Fine Arts School in Medellin-Colombia, she was able to achieve mastery in different techniques and art forms.
At a turning point in her life, she decided to leave her hometown of Medellin and move to Miami, Florida. It was a difficult transition, but over time, she found this to be an opportunity to experience a new path in her artistic development and learn new and more modern techniques.
Her early paintings demonstrate soft and delicate brushstrokes. With time, her work transformed into a richer visual language with images including a great perception of depth and form demonstrated in different mediums including oils, watercolors, pastels, acrylics and mixed media.
She also studied academic drawing and painting, painting after plaster casts and figure studies in oil. In addition, her participation in intensive workshops in mixed media such as collage and textures, under artists Abdon J. Romero, Sonia Hidalgo, and other renowned artists such as Jesus Villareal, Derek Gore, Julio Suarez, and others, helped to enrich her work and are the basis of her sound and vast experience in the art world. In effect, she currently remains studying because she strongly believes an artist is always in a continuous process of learning.
Her vision of her work is shaped by a personal expression that marks her distinctive artistic style. Trained as a painter, she has an obsession for materials and textures of great variety. Moreover, her love of new techniques, richly textured surfaces, bright color mixtures and luscious shades, all serve to create a sense of well-being to the very fortunate spectators of her style of art. In her work, we will find various forms of textures and density in which she creates portraits, still lives, landscapes, flowers, figures and experimental abstraction, every thing framed in a contemporary realism. One, amongst many, of her painting styles has developed along the lines of the abstract as well as fugaritive abstraction.
Gloria currently resides in the United States. She shares an art studio in Miami with several great artists where they create art works, learn from each other and teach others the magic of art. Her work is continually evolving and growing as she explores new and revolutionary materials and techniques.