TERESA CUELLAR "Teyé" – Bogotá, Colombia Teresa Cuéllar began using the professional name "TEYE" at the suggestion of her lifelong friend and fellow colombian artist Fernando Botero. Teyé chooses the objects she paints from the grounds of her family's villa in Chía, Colombia, a beautiful spot in the hills located an hour from Bogotá. Passion, sensuality, power, and the essence of the feminine are reflected in the stunningly beautiful paintings of Teyé, one of Colombia's best-known and most respected artists. She has perfected a style of misty realism which gives remarkable life and personality to the most common objects--an apple, an onion, a flower. Each magnificent object, astonishingly complex and full of detail, floats on a glowing background which projects it forward like a new universe plucked from a garden. Teyé' style has evolved over the years-moving from an abstract figurativism to a very personal form of crisp naturalism. Throughout her career, she has mostly painted still life-fruit, vegetables, and flowers - depicting these everyday objects as luminous, colorful embodiments of sensuous shapes, bursting with life and the suggestion of generativity. While a student at Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Teyé began exploring her trademark still lifes, painting them at first with spatulas instead of brushes. Teyé continued her work in 1960-61 at the School of Fine Arts in Rome, where she lived with her husband, Colombian writer Antonio Montaña. During this time, she participated in important invitational art salons in Europe. She returned to Colombia in the early 60s, and began painting with brushes, giving her work its current vibrant look and today Teyé is more prolific than ever. She continues to produce her extraordinary oil paintings, which now display a confident maturity and power. A remarkably versatile artist. TEYE's engravings of floral arrangements use similar skillfull methods of Teresa Cuéllar's (Teyé) art work has been shown in over 40 group shows in Colombia. Below is a list of her one women shows in Colombia: 1963 - Galería El Callejón, Bogotá 1965 - Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá 1968 - Galería Marta Traba, "Neobodegones 2," Bogotá 1969 - Galería de la Alianza Colonbo-Francesa, "Dibujos," Bogotá 1970 - Galería Bellarca, "Hongos," Bogotá Sala del Banco de la República, "Neobodegones 3," Bogotá 1972 - Sala Gregorio Vazques, "Diez años, Retrospectiva," Bogotá and Cartagena 1974 - El Callejón, "Naturaleza Casi Viva," Bogota 1976 - El Callejón, "20 Obras Recientes," Bogotá 1978 - Galería Belarca, "18 Dibujos: Pequeño formato," Bogotá 1980 - Galería Granahorrar, Bogotá 1981 - Galería Belarca, "14 Pasteles," Bogotá 1983 - Galería Quintero, Barranquilla 1986 - Galería Negret, "Acercameintos," Bogotá 1989 - Art Autopista, "10 Pasteles and 6 Dibujos, Medellin 1992 - Galería el Sextante, "Grabados," Bogotá -Salón Avianca, "30 Años Retrospectiva," Barranquilla -Centro Colombo Americano "30 Años, Retrospectiva," Bogotá Teyé International Showings 1963-Chosen to represent in the "Second Biannual Show for Young Artists," Paris, France. - "Exhibitions of n Paintings," Fort Lauderdale, Florida US. - "Exposition de Arte no," Puerto Rico, US. 1965-For second time she represents in the "Biannual Show for Young Artists," Paris, France. 1971-"Arte no," Puerto Rico, USA. 1972-Galería El Morro, "Diez Pintores nos," Puerto Rico, USA. 1982-Christie's Gallery, "Latin American Auction," New York, New York, USA. 1983-Christie's Gallery, "XIX and XX Century Latin American Painting," New York, New York, USA. 1985-"Arte no Contemporáneo," Moscow and Leningrad, USSR. 1986-Two of her painting are part of a museum tour through Europe and US, "Espacios Itinerante" 1986-Christie's Gallery, "Latin American Auction," New York, New York, USA. 1989-Christie's Gallery, "Latin American Auction," New York, New York, USA. RELATED LINKS: |