Piece description from the artist
I draw my inspiration from geometry, diagrams, scientific drawings, cartoons, and organic forms; Turning them into simplified, decorative and sometimes awkward structures. I play with lines, colors, shapes and patterns to create a seemingly orderly composition that simultaneously possesses a sense of playfulness and looseness. The patterns create a sensation of symmetry where shaky dots, lines and solid chunky shapes oddly harmonize with each other. In Off Guard, organism-like forms cohabitate in a harmonious environment where they grow and multiply creating a garden of organic shapes.
Manoela Madera is a Puerto Rican painter whose work explores transformation, memory, and the symbolic relationships between people, objects, and place. Working with acrylic, oil, oil pastels, and mixed media on reclaimed wood and canvas, she creates layered compositions that blur the boundaries between abstraction and representation while inviting viewers to discover personal meaning within them. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and her professional experience in visual archives, design, and creative direction has shaped her sensitivity to material, composition, and storytelling. Influenced by the Caribbean landscape, mythology, natural cycles, and the histories embedded in found objects, Madera's practice examines how meaning accumulates through time and lived experience. Her paintings offer spaces for contemplation rather than fixed narratives, encouraging viewers to form their own connections with the symbols, textures, and rhythms that emerge throughout her work. Her work has been exhibited in Puerto Rico and the United States and is held in private collections.
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