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| Produced entirely in the
computer. In July 2004 Inés Medina returned from New York to the hills and mountains of the Basque Country. The emotion she felt at the sheer attraction of nature and the pleasure she felt in the spectacle provided by the Basque hills stimulated her to photograph what she saw. Back in New York, she became fully aware of her need to retain and relive the sensations and visions of nature. It was the visual-cum-metaphysical experimentation she needed to prepare this series, which Inés defines as "the analysis of visual and emotional experimentation to transcend the spaces perceived as metaphysical, oriented towards the necessary demystification of the projections made on them, for the sake of a more genuine spirituality; one that can be accepted as truly human." More information at: www.inesmedina.com |
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| Inés Medina
was born in Cáceres in 1950 and raised in the Basque
Country in Northern Spain. Much of her career was spent
in Bilbao until her arrival in the U.S. in 1995. She has
spent an entire artistic life exploring feminine
spirituality, the process of soul from unconsciousness to
consciousness, and the development of identity of self.
Influenced by Piet Mondrian and Jorge Oteiza, Medina
dedicates her art to all determined spirits whether in
men or women who can 'develop and express their feminine
condition or qualities free from external or internal
pressures or conditions, there by contributing to a much
fairer, authentic society'. She received her Masters and Ph.D in Fine Arts at the University of Bilbao where she wrote major research works including “The Dynamic Tension in Painting- Art and Technology” and “Will, The First Structural Points of Mature Attitudes in Art.” It is during this time she also began her investigation of the feminine soul, an investigation that continues today. Recognizing the lack of women artists, teachers, and critics in the art establishment in Spain in the 1970's, Inés Medina quickly became a strong voice determined to change the balance of power in the Spanish art world. In 1981 she created a school in Bilbao, the Estudio de las Artes Plásticas where she taught painting, sculpture, drawing, plasticity and art history. During this time she helped hundreds of women and men find their artistic voices. In 1995 Inés Medina moved to NYC to continue her investigation of the feminine psyche and how it interacts within masculine social, political and psychological structures in modern society. She created another school. In her major series entitled the 18 Series of the Experimental Analytical Method for Consciousness- Perception of the Unification or Identity of the Self, Ines Medina demonstrates through a range of styles, the process of finding an identity. Through scientific experimentation she has come to a philosophy of finding the inner structures of oneself and the collective. Her major exhibitions include a 2001 exhibition at the United Nations entitled “Expressions from the Unification,” a 2004 exhibition in Chelsea entitled “Sexuality and Mysticism of the Feminine,” a 2006 exhibition in Bilbao called “The Unified Femininity,” an 2007 exhibition called “The Perceptual Body,” in Bilbao, Spain. Her work was exhibited in the Guggenheim-Bilbao museum, included in the project “Incógnitas. Cartografias del Arte Contemporáneo en Euskadi.” She was awarded the critic’s award of Peter Blum - by New York University and The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation of New York. In 2007, “Emakunde. Institute of Women of The Basque Government,” subsidized Inés Medina’s research “Burnt Dolls. The Unconscious, as the virtual line of communication between mother and daughter, in the gender's problems.“ Today, Inés Medina works in both Spain and New York. She has 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren. She continues to mentor and teach women artists in addition to her painting. She is also a published poet. |
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