NORA MACIEL
BIOGRAPHY
Nora Maciel was born in Cd. De México. Since she was a child, she had access to art books, classical music and affinity to drawing and color management.
At age 10, she bought her first canvases and oil paintings and began copying characters from classic painters.
Later she asked her father to take her to the San Carlos Academy to see the possibility of studying there; As soon as they arrived at the venue, Nora's father, although cultured and knowledgeable about art, saw in some salons models posing naked men and women, which bothered him and thus ended and closed, Nora's illusion of painting.
Life takes several turns in the search for her profession, taking her in the 80s to work in the Art Gallery of Siqueiros Cultural Poliforum, where she has the opportunity to meet and interact with painters like José Luis Cuevas, Javier Arévalo, Francisco Zúñiga , Leonel Maciel, Pedro Banda, Manuel Felgueres and some others.
This is also where she meets an emerging Catalan painter who had come to exhibit at the Poliforum, Manuel Adrià, with whom she began a strong bond in affinity to painting and art.
She began a relationship with the Catalan painter and they left for Barcelona, where Nora enrolled at the School of Design "Líneas", where he resumed his vocation for brushes and color.
In 1990 she taught Body Proportioning and Color Techniques at the "Lines" School of Design in Barcelona, where she studied.
In 1993 he returned to Mexico and collaborated in the magazine "Obelisco" in Mexico City with figurines and illustrations.
From 1994 to 1995 she takes different courses and workshops on Art History at Casa Lamm Cd. De México
From 1993 to 1996 she teaches Body Proportioning and Color Techniques at the "Ibero Mexicana de Diseño" school in Mexico City.
In 1997, settled in Vallarta, they set up a School of Painting and Design, where she teaches for several years and has the opportunity to exhibit his works in "Galería Uno" of Puerto Vallarta.
From 2001 to 2007, she set up an art gallery called "Galería Nova", where artists such as her husband Manuel Adrià, plastic painters from Vallarta, Rogelio Díaz, Francisco San Miguel, Sheila Devine ...and their own Works.
From 2007 to 2015, after closing her gallery for her to devote full time to her painting, she exhibits permanently in "Galería Uno".
In 2010 she exhibited in the Collective Show "Mujeres" in the "Vertigo Gallery" of Mexico City.
In 2014 she exhibited at the Collective Show "Eros" at the OPEN Center for the Arts in Chicago.
In 2014 he also exhibits at the "Día de Muertos" Collective in the "Corona Gallery" in the City of Puebla.
From 2016 to date she exhibits permanently in "Gallería Dante" in Puerto Vallarta.
Nora Maciel's work is feminine, seductive, vibrant; handles a multicolored palette sometimes warm, sometimes cold.
"I paint women from different mirrors, naive and innocent, seductive, melancholy or trivial, in everyday and real spaces or ethereal, ephemeral and abstract moments."
At age 10, she bought her first canvases and oil paintings and began copying characters from classic painters.
Later she asked her father to take her to the San Carlos Academy to see the possibility of studying there; As soon as they arrived at the venue, Nora's father, although cultured and knowledgeable about art, saw in some salons models posing naked men and women, which bothered him and thus ended and closed, Nora's illusion of painting.
Life takes several turns in the search for her profession, taking her in the 80s to work in the Art Gallery of Siqueiros Cultural Poliforum, where she has the opportunity to meet and interact with painters like José Luis Cuevas, Javier Arévalo, Francisco Zúñiga , Leonel Maciel, Pedro Banda, Manuel Felgueres and some others.
This is also where she meets an emerging Catalan painter who had come to exhibit at the Poliforum, Manuel Adrià, with whom she began a strong bond in affinity to painting and art.
She began a relationship with the Catalan painter and they left for Barcelona, where Nora enrolled at the School of Design "Líneas", where he resumed his vocation for brushes and color.
In 1990 she taught Body Proportioning and Color Techniques at the "Lines" School of Design in Barcelona, where she studied.
In 1993 he returned to Mexico and collaborated in the magazine "Obelisco" in Mexico City with figurines and illustrations.
From 1994 to 1995 she takes different courses and workshops on Art History at Casa Lamm Cd. De México
From 1993 to 1996 she teaches Body Proportioning and Color Techniques at the "Ibero Mexicana de Diseño" school in Mexico City.
In 1997, settled in Vallarta, they set up a School of Painting and Design, where she teaches for several years and has the opportunity to exhibit his works in "Galería Uno" of Puerto Vallarta.
From 2001 to 2007, she set up an art gallery called "Galería Nova", where artists such as her husband Manuel Adrià, plastic painters from Vallarta, Rogelio Díaz, Francisco San Miguel, Sheila Devine ...and their own Works.
From 2007 to 2015, after closing her gallery for her to devote full time to her painting, she exhibits permanently in "Galería Uno".
In 2010 she exhibited in the Collective Show "Mujeres" in the "Vertigo Gallery" of Mexico City.
In 2014 she exhibited at the Collective Show "Eros" at the OPEN Center for the Arts in Chicago.
In 2014 he also exhibits at the "Día de Muertos" Collective in the "Corona Gallery" in the City of Puebla.
From 2016 to date she exhibits permanently in "Gallería Dante" in Puerto Vallarta.
Nora Maciel's work is feminine, seductive, vibrant; handles a multicolored palette sometimes warm, sometimes cold.
"I paint women from different mirrors, naive and innocent, seductive, melancholy or trivial, in everyday and real spaces or ethereal, ephemeral and abstract moments."
