Tamara Soto is a canadian-bolivian contemporary artist. Her work engages with the immediate response of the line, shape and color. Primarily an oil painter, her practice extended to mixed media and drawing. Her work explores abstraction in nature as a mystical space rather than a real place.
Her new work looks inwards to find a new vocabulary to express her ancestral journey by creating botanical compositions and abstract figures. Nature provides the main inspiration for her work and gives her the joyful feeling of being in the present.
Painting is a vehicle for exploration; a meditative form of expression where ideas, experiences and emotions are reflected on the surface. Her work explores colour interactions, patterns, contrast, and texture.
Tamara transitioned from working in a non-profit organization and doing freelance graphic design projects to finally focus on her true passion the creation of art. Painting and drawing comes very natural to her. It is an intuitively flowing visual language that she feels very fortunate to explore.
Exhibitions
2023, Guelph Studio Tour, Guelph
2023, Cabbage Art and Craft, Toronto
2023 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
2023 Solo Show Red Brick Cafe, Guelph
2022 Guelph Studio Tour
2022 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
2022 Riverdale Art Walk, Toronto
2022 Rosedale Art Fair, Toronto
2022 Emergence, 404 Gallery, Guelph
2021 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
2021 Art on the virtual street, Guelph
2021 Small works, Petroff Gallery, Toronto
2020 Artist Project, Toronto
2019 Works on Paper, Petroff Gallery, Toronto
2019 Art Austria, Vang Gogh Gallery, Madrid
2019 Contemporary Art Fair Paris, Vang Gogh Gallery, Madrid
2018 Abstract, Pretroff Gallery, Toronto
2018 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
2018 Riverdale Art Walk, Toronto
2017 Black & White, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto