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ARTIST - Juan Pablo Zambrano Romero (Zaro)

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All we can say about painter Juan Pablo Zambrano Romero (also known as Zaro) from Piña, north of Loja city, is that he is a world class talent. Details about the artist are not easy to come by but not lacking because he is his own subject. Zambrano's large canvases are an extreme closeup of his face. The works are a tour de force uniting all the important elements of 21st century Realism: figurative, photo real, and most importantly hyperreal. While contemporary realistic figurative painting represents the human form in a world captivated by abstraction, and photorealism aims to beat technology at its own game, hyperrealism alters the image to express the artist's attitude towards the current state of the world. Zambrano's self portraits feature exhaustion, anxiety, fracturing, and most recently suffocation. The latest work shows his panicking face choking under a clear plastic bag. The result is nothing short of electrifying at such close range with every pore, hair, bead ...
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ARTIST - Gabriela Jaramillo Soto

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ARTIST - Gabriela (Gaby) Jaramillo Soto (1997 - ) Studies plastic arts at Universidad Nacional de Loja (UNL). Recent exhibitions include "Mizizi" roots Samay Ayapash-soul and spirit (“MIZIZI” RAÍCES SAMAY AYAPASH- ALMA Y ESPÍRITU) and "Ancient Ancestral Art" (Arte Anígena Ancestral) in 2019. Artist quotes: "My art is indigenous-Ancestral and social cut. The proposal I'm finally developing is an ancestral tribute. All that hidden memory, which for some reason is lost, I rescue it. Every proposal becomes autobiographical. I've looked inside of me to find myself. That land is where I grew up and has its story."  "I just know that I give the best of me that I give everything I can and I have, I fight, I effort, someday everything will be worth it." Ñawikuna (Faces)     facebook.com/gaby.soto instagram.com/gabie    
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ARTIST - Sofia Vivanco

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"Gatita de miel" (Honey Cat) ARTIST - Sofía Vivanco   (1997 - ) Recent exhibitions include “Abstraction of sensibility” at the Pittura Gallery (2018), “Imaginarios patrimoniales en el Festival de Artes Vivas de Loja” (2017). "Sin tiempo" (Without time) facebook.com/sofia.vivanco instagram.com/saya00a
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ARTIST - Ramiina Peralta Medina *

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ARTIST - Ramiina Peralta Medina   (1997 - ) Studied Plastic Arts and Graphic Design at Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL). ramina.pb.gallery facebook.com/profile.Ramiina instagram.com/negritaperalta
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ARTIST - Andrea Luna

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"Fragment of my skin" ARTIST - Andrea Estefanía Luna Correa   (1992 - ) Studied Visual Arts and Design at Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL). Her thesis is titled "Fragments. Sensation and experience of a depressive body." Recent exhibitions include the collective art show for the launch of "Se Acabó La Tinta #5" at Howard Johnson's (2018), "Wakán Espiritu/Rara Tangara" 2018, “Expo Mascaras” at Museo del Ministerio de Cultura 2017, “Simbiosis” in La Casa de Manuel 2016. Mask sculpture facebook.com/andrea.luna
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ARTIST - Anabel Robles

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ARTIST - Anabel Robles Recent exhibitions include "VI Collective Exhibition Arte-Mujer" 2018 in the Sala Eduardo Kingman , and "Wabi-Sabi" in the Casona Cultural 2018. "Esencia" (Essence) facebook.com/anikaanabel.robles instagram.com/anabel_robles
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ARTIST ~ Eduardo Kingman

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"Mano Grande" (Big Hands), 1981 ARTIST - Eduardo Kingman Riofrío  (1913 - 1997) Born in Loja, Eduardo is known as "the painter of hands" and was regarded as one of the masters of twentieth century expressionism.   He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Quito, with stops in Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and in the United States at the San Francisco Art Institute.  Eventually he received a chair at the same institute, was the director of Quito's Colonial Art Museum, and a owned private gallery also in Quito.  While living in Quito, he became the protege of other famous Lojanos like writers Bejamin Carrion and Pablo Palacio.  His lithographs, woodcuts, and paintings concentrated on the social realities of Ecuador's indigenous people.  The artisit's deeply humanistic style captured the range of emotions from anguish, anger, and impotence in the face of injustice, to the quieter feelings of tenderness and devotion.  As well as painting, Eduardo ...
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