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About
Andrea Eslava is a Colombian painter and visual artist based in Toronto. Working in acrylic and oil, she explores abstraction as a visual language through which color, gesture, rhythm, and memory become forms of perception.
Her practice began with the urban landscape. In Código Urbano, she used technology to magnify fragments of everyday urban apparel until their original sources became unrecognizable, transforming them into abstract compositions shaped by color, geometry, and rhythm. This inquiry later expanded into the natural world and into increasingly introspective bodies of work centered on memory, emotion, and inner perception.
Eslava’s recent work, including the series Connections, examines the invisible relationships between nature, human experience, and the interior landscape of thought. She has exhibited in Colombia, France, and Canada, and her current work is on view at the Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch.