A M Reyes - “Jarrón azul” (XL)NO RESERVE

“Blue Vase”

Blue Vase is a modern still life that revisits the classic theme of the object with a contemporary vigor. The artist has subverted the traditional genre by focusing not on photorealistic precision, but on the raw, emotional interaction of complementary colors and texture. The blue vase, though titular, is the visual anchor of a scene filled with life and implicit movement. The profusion of lemons, seeming to spill over the vase and occupy the foreground, evokes abundance and vitality.

Vida AMReyes. (Granma, Cuba 1991) discovered from a very young age that drawing was not just a pastime, but a way to translate the world. In 2010, she graduated with honors from the prestigious Carlos Enrique Gómez Academy of Fine Arts. There she established exceptional technical mastery in oil painting, acrylics, and drawing from life, foundations that would later shape her conceptual signature.

Her early career unfolded amid the Cuban cultural effervescence, actively participating in young art salons and group exhibitions. Her work quickly began to stand out: in salons and exhibitions, she won numerous prizes and mentions.

AMReyes’s work is distinguished by a visceral, imposing realism that instantly captures the gaze. Yet her approach does not stop at mere photographic mimetic accuracy. On anatomies developed with rigor or faces charged with deep psychographic expressiveness, the artist overlays and integrates icons, allegories, and conceptual elements: wings that seem invisible to the bearer, suspended threads, blocks of dense color, or symbolic clothing. For her, the human body and the everyday figure are the perfect canvas to reflect on identity.

This fusion between technical mastery and symbolic narrative opened the way to international exposure. Over the past decade, her pieces have been acquired by private collectors and galleries in:
- Spain: where her conceptual language connects with European Expressionism.
- United States: included in private collections devoted to contemporary Latin American art.
- Belgium and Poland: exhibited at figurative art fairs and avant-garde galleries.
- Russia: acquired by collectors fascinated by the technical rigor and the school of realism.

Currently, AMReyes resides in Spain, a country where she has established her studio and consolidated a new creative phase. Far from the fast commercial noise, she continues to develop her artistic life with patience and rigor, exploring painting as a tool for universal introspection. Her studio is today a space of constant creation, where every brushstroke continues to reveal those hidden truths and icons that we all carry inside, but that we often find hard to see.