The artist, Ana Rita Rosales, was born in San Jose, Costa Rica and has been painting for 20 years. She took master courses in watercolor, acrylic and drawing at the Silvermind Institute in Stanford,

Connecticut, USA, where she showed her first exhibit of her latest work. She participates in art fairs in Costa Rican and at the moment she exhibits at Banco Mutual de Alajuela and the Crowne Plaza hotel in Panamá City.

Ana Rita Rosales says that it’s the first time that she exhibits in Panamá and abroad, for her, this has been a very good experience since she’s received much support for her paintings.

Exhibition

Ana Rita Rosales portraits the ‘Porteña’ experiences in her paintings; one will be able to appreciate many bicycles because it’s the mean of transportation of the fishermen, the colors of dawn after fishing all night. Also one can see paintings with cats on them because “where there is fish there are always cats”, nevertheless her main character is fish. This artist constructs and renews with colors the appreciative memory of being ‘Puntarenense’.

The force of the sea, the warmth of the sun and fishing as a main activity are some of the most important elements that this artist wants to represent in her work. It is for that reason that the abundance of light in her pictures is the reflection of the burning sun of the melodious Pacific Ocean.

In as much, the painter Marcia Salas knew very clearly her future profession as an artist since childhood, she confirmed this when she won her first children contest. She studied painting, but when she finished she decided to study engraving because she always liked printed things.

She has been recipient of nine prizes in her native Costa Rica and three abroad and she was awarded the best engraving work in 2005 and the Aquilles J. Echeverria prize in plastic arts for her exhibition “Pescados Virtuales”.

This artist has gained a very important honor place standing out in the technique of engraving, showing dozens of collective and individual exhibitions in Costa Rica, Italy, Japan Honduras and Germany.

Marcia Salas indicates that in this exhibition there are four pictures that reflect the horse as the main subject, since from childhood she grew in an environment full of trees, animals and beautiful nature. She also has feminine engravings because she was always interested in painting women’s shoes.

In this exhibition you’ll be able to appreciate pieces where life experiences of these successful painters have been captured. Prices range from US$2,500 to US$3,500 for Maria Salas paintings ‘Caballitos y Lunas’, ‘Capricornio II’, ‘Jugo Rojo’ and ‘La Cita’,, and the Ana Rita Rosales pieces ‘Llevando la cena’, ‘Recogiendo redes y el pez en la mira del gato’.

Katherine Domínguez / The Panama Post katherine.dominguez@rimolamedios.com