Carla Arocha is a Venezuelan artist recognized for her work grounded in Minimalism, design, and geometric abstraction, specifically examples from her native Venezuela.
12 Facts About Carla Arocha
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Carla Arocha's work has been exhibited internationally since the mid-1990s.
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Carla Arocha obtained a Bachelor of Science from Saint Xavier University in 1986.
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Carla Arocha obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994.
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Aqua Trace relates to an installation by Carla Arocha entitled Hide for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and which featured leopard-print patterns created with mirrored Plexiglas.
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Conversely to her sharp opulent Plexiglas installations and kinetic mobiles, Carla Arocha's paintings are flat and pale although the artist's constant preoccupation with ornament lies beneath the minimal framework.
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For example, Carla Arocha filled the hard-edged contour of a simple pitched-roof dwelling with bold, meandering loops in House.
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In 2006, Carla Arocha started working in collaboration with Stephane Schraenen.
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In 1997, Carla Arocha first showed her work in a gallery at Chicago's Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
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In 1997, when the MCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago commissioned a solo project for its main entrance hall, Carla Arocha produced a piece made up of clusters of leopard-print patterns created with mirrored Plexiglas that can be reconfigured upon each installation.
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Carla Arocha's work is part of several the public collections of various museums in the United States, Europe, and South America, including New-York's MoMA; Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; Antwerp's Museum of Contemporary Art; Bern's Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland; the Fonds regional d'art contemporain d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand; the Fundacion Banco Mercantil, Caracas; and Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton in Florida, US.
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In 1999, four years later, Carla Arocha moved to Belgium and married Tuymans.