LUZ HERRERA
PLASTIC ARTIST
CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
CAREER
Luz Herrera starts her painterly studies in 1968 with classical portrait painting and still life with Miss Angelina Gómez Grosso, watercolour and oil landscape with Miss Ana Landín and finally human figure at Iberoamericana University, Mexico City.
Starts her career, studying Graphic Design with an expertise on illustration, degree obtained by the Iberoamericana University.
From 1992, she starts teaching classical painting and creativity workshops in her own studio.
She specializes in contemporary painting in the National Centre of the Arts "La Esmeralda" with Eidetic paint and Philosophy of Colour with Mr. Rogel Von Gunten.
Living in Bogotá, Colombia, she gets to study with Mr. Guillermo Spinosa and defines her tendency and style towards abstract painting.
Later on she studies Introduction to Abstract Painting and New Tendencies of Abstract Painting at Iberoamericana University with Mr. Juan Gonzalez de León.
Getting a degree on abstract painting at Iberoamericana University with the theme Death and Birth, she finishes defining her style.
As Director of the department of Graphic Design at the office of Arq. Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, she participates in projects for setting and illustration for:
• International Olympic Committee based in Switzerland.
• Leads the World Cup setting MEXICO 86.
• Participates in the setting of the Information Center MEXICO 86.
• Wins competition on international image of the official mascot for the Olympic Winter Games 1994 in Lillehammmer.
• Later she specializes in setting restaurants and shops.
Luz exhibits in Mexico in various forums with different themes. Since her inception, she has been attracted by nature in his paintings expressing duality and contradictory discourse of several human subjects based on nature itself.
