Marta Estrems (b. Rosario, Argentina, 1949) received professional training in Buenos Aires. She initially pursued studies at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts, where she obtained a degree in teaching visual arts. She later studied in the master of fine arts program, majoring in drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Prilidiano Pueryrredon National School of Fine Arts.
Estrems’ intuitive painting evinces her alignment with Lyrical Abstraction, which formally draws upon informalism and tachism. It emerges as a result of an exercise in isolation and introspection of the artist’s wish to seek refuge in herself and turn her gaze inward. Many of her canvases are imbued with a repressed tension, seeking to achieve calm through the creative act. Revealing an impressive economy of expressive resources, the artist imparts precise signs on the canvas. These indelible traces constitute metaphors for her emotional reaction, not only with respect to today’s uncertain present but also to the tumultuous social reality that has characterized Argentina and Latin America’s recent past.
Throughout her career, Estrems has participated in more than twenty exhibitions in Argentina, Italy, Spain, and the United States. Her work has been shown in cultural institutions such as PIAG Museum (Coral Gables, FL), Armory Art Center (West Palm Beach, FL), the Alvin Sherman Library (Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale), and the Latino Art Museum (Pomona, CA) among others. Her most recent solo exhibition includes “Containment: The Tao of Aesthetics” (Arch Gallery, Miami, 2012) and “Painting and Drawings by Marta Estrems” (Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2008).
She has lived in Miami since 1987.