Laura Piñeiro
Bio
A contemporary visual artist that explores colors and organic forms in woodcuts and paintings, born in Asuncion, Paraguay.
Trained as a visual communicator at the Catholic University of Asuncion and as a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the National University of Asuncion ISA-FADA, Laura has also completed a Master’s in Challenging Branding at LABASAD Barcelona School of Arts & Design, University of Lleida.
In 2019, she resumed a Woodcut Specialization Workshop with maestro Carlo Spatuzza at former Centro de Estudios Brasileros (CEB), now Instituto Guimarães Rosa Asunción.
She teaches Persuasive Communication in FADA-UNA Graphic Design program.
She has also served as Vice President at AVISPA "Association of Professional Visual Artists of Paraguay", Paraguay’s delegate for the IDB 24 Ibero-American Design Biennial – Madrid, Spain, and as consultant for Paraguay for El Observador de Marcas 2021-2022 Yearbook of Hispanic America.
Acknowledgments she has received in her country for her artistic work include National Winner of the 2005 UNION LATINA AWARD FOR YOUNG CREATION IN VISUAL ARTS, selected artist for HENRI MATISSE AWARD’s 7th edition in 2005 and 8th edition in 2006.
International acknowledgements as a visual communicator include being selected for the 2017 LATAMPACK International Latin American Packaging Awards, the CLAP International Ibero-American Design Awards in the best signage system category in 2014 and 2017, and participating in the IDB 14 and IDB 18 Ibero-American Design Biennial – Madrid, Spain.
After several group exhibitions, Laura held her first solo woodcut and acrylics exhibition at Galería Fábrica / Club de Arte in February 2022.
Statement
In her beginnings as a student of visual arts, somewhere around the late nineties, Laura ventures into Digital Art with black & white photography, adopting social, global and ecological themes. After a few years, she returns to the printing workshop, where she begins to explore techniques using digital tools to achieve precision, discovering, through abstraction, organic forms and transparent superimposed colors that create dynamism. She then analogically transfers this language to her large-format, acrylic paintings. In this way, her pictorial works, although coming from technically different processes, dialogue with her woodcut works on paper.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
