Nora Said is an Argentinian artist residing in Miami, who has more than twenty-five years of production in the art world. Within her training as an artist, she has studied oil painting, acrylic, watercolor and collage, technical knowledge that she has taken advantage of and applied in her work with excellent results.

The artworks that currently represent Nora Said on our platform, are part of her productions titled Serie En algún lugar and Serie Orgánica. En algún lugar, a kind of interior landscape, its technical creation procedure is based on collage. The artist, in a fortuitous and playful way, previously colors the silk papers with a pictorial substance diluted in water and alcohol; then she tears and wrinkles them spontaneously, and without any premeditation she begins her composition process on the canvas, automatically attaching the pieces of paper, like brushstrokes, creating gestural stains of color, thus achieving subtle and transparent chromatic results, close to those of the watercolor; and with the tears, folds and roughness of the paper, marked textures are generated that, together with the color, add visual value to her works, very attractive visual effects.

Her Serie Orgánica is characterized by compositions of practically flat colors, scarcely modulated, circumscribed by sinuous, curved lines, which form irregular, organic, abstract forms, which are intertwined with each other, suggesting entities of the natural world, belonging to the plant and animal kingdom. In front of them, the viewer is free to play with their visual perception and imagination, and associate, recreate or discover figures with movements that grow, expand, sprout, or fly.

In both series the idea of the landscape is the central motif, although in a very subjective way and with different technical and formal procedures.

José Gregorio Noroño