Ana Mercedes Hoyos

Art Brokerage: Ana Mercedes Hoyos Colombian Artist: b. 1942-2014. Born in Bogota, Columbia; Ana Mercedes Hoyos was a painter, sculptor and a pioneer in modern art in her country. She studied at the Universidad de Los Andes under the direction of Juan Antonio Roda, Luciano Jaramillo, Armando Villegas, and Marta Traba. Her professional career as an artist started in 1968, when she got awarded the second place prize at the Primer Salon de Arte Joven. A year later she finished the series Ventanas and Atmosferas, which are hailed as her best works. In 1978, she was awarded First Prize at the Salon de Artistas Nacionales. Hoyos began her career with a Pop Art style, and then moved towards abstract, cubism, and realism as she explored light, color, sensuality and the bounty of her surroundings. Her reinterpretations of master painters led her to an exploration of Colombian multiculturalism, and her later works focused on Afro-Colombian and mestizo heritage within the Colombian landscape. The work of Ana Mercedes Hoyos is heavily influenced by Pop Art, but stays true to her native South American context. It is a world of vivid color and clear lines. Her subject is for the most part fruit with some daily life mixed in. Today, this accomplished female artist is considered as one of the most important to come out of Colombia in the 20th Century. Her work is part of major Museums as well as important private collections throughout the world. Listings wanted.