Organized by the Secretary of Culture of Querétaro and the MAQRO, Art Museum of Querétaro, the exhibition Geometric Artifices by the painter Maru Vázquez was inaugurated on October 24, on the occasion of her 50th anniversary as an artist.

This exhibit, unlike others of its magnitude, shows the author's most recent work in which we can appreciate her transit through these last two years, based on geometric structures worked in mixed media on canvas and wood.

On this occasion, Vázquez decided to take up the structure of the first collection she made as such, and work on it after 50 years, to honor her roots, her journey along the path of art and everything she learned to show the public a vigorous and elegant discourse.

Her new works are full of color, different nuances and textures, both visual and real, as well as including elements of rupture that give a more contemporary touch to her creations.

In reference to this celebration, the author shared a few paragraphs with us:

This exhibition, together with the other shows displayed in the venue, will make you travel through the different disciplines of graphic and visual art made by renowned and transcendent artists.

The exhibition will be open to the public Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-6pm, from now until the first days of January 2025, at the Querétaro Museum of Art, located at 14 Allende Street, Historic Center.

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Born in Mexico in 1960. She entered the art world in a lyrical and circumstantial way, in 1975, working with oils. Later she perfected her technique and took classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, graphic design, art history, human figure, object art, engraving, batik, mixed media, abstractionism, monotype, resins and molds and experimental painting.

She has a degree in Graphic Communication from the Academia de San Carlos, as well as a master's degree in Visual Arts from UNAM.

Distinguished artists such as José Luis Cuevas+, Alberto Castro Leñero, Manuel Felguérez, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Alberto Gutiérrez, Emilia Sidauy+, Yani Pecanins+, Juan José Beltrán+, J.D.Weiss and Rafael Solana+, are among her teachers.

She has participated in more than 106 group exhibitions and 35 solo shows in Mexico, the United States, South America and Europe.

Her work is in permanent collections in Mexico, Paris, Berlin, Bermuda, Texas and Cabo San Lucas.

Personalities such as Bertha Taracena, Ninfa Canté, Robert Hughes, G. Archer and Robert E. Edelman have written about her work. Also, there are articles and interviews about her work in the most widely circulated newspapers and publications such as Arte al Día, Expansión, Ocean Drive, Proceso, Harpers Bazaar, Glow, Clara, Quien, Vanidades, Tiempos del Mundo, Personae, Cardinal and Época, among others.

Canal 22 made a special about her career in 2006.

Her work was included in two films "The woman after" and "Siete años de matrimonio". It was also used to illustrate the cover of the book "Aprendí que" by Estrella Aguilar.

In 2011, the Suntory brand made a special production of its Plumb Due liquor with a commemorative label for its 35 years of trajectory. It included the artwork Rebirth, part of the collection "Life, a celebration of..."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development selected her as Mexico's representative for the War on Hunger Group Auction in Paris, France in 2014. This event celebrated the 50th anniversary of the OECD, in which her work was one of the most outstanding contributions.

Most important awards:
Third place in the Painting Marathon of Santa Fe, New Mexico 1991.
Diploma as outstanding artist Art Paris, Paris, France 2002 (10th place)
Second place at the First Biennial of Contemporary Latin American Art Barcelona, Spain 2004
Second place, Honorable Mention (5th place) and Special Mention as one of the three best collections presented at Art Paris, Paris, France 2007
First place for painting at the Karlsruhe Biennal, Berlin, Germany 2011.
Representative of Mexico at the OECD Auction for the War on Hunger Group Paris, France, 2014.
Member of ARTAC, Mexican Committee of the International Association of Plastic Artists, associated with UNESCO 2019.

In 2006, under the sponsorship of TELMEX, she created the Women in Art Group, and presides it to date; which has 180 career artists and 27 exhibitions and auctions.

As a parallel work, she teaches a workshop of expression through color and is Creator and Director of Igual... Ninguno!, her own brand of everyday items painted and reborn as pieces of art.

In 2020 she moved to San Miguel de Allende and began exhibiting her work at the Art Museum of Queretaro, the Nudo Gallery, the Calderoni Gallery, located in the cultural center "La Aurora", and Gale 88.

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