Doris Barahona

March Featured Artist

Artist Bio:

Doris Barahona was born in Santiago, Chile and has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina since1997. She is an abstract painter with realist tones using shellac, India inks, and oil in her work. Doris participated in a residency with Andy Braitman, and various workshops around the country. Doris believes that the juxtaposition between intellect and creativity is part of the never-ending process of being an artist. She creates based on the process of thinking and letting go, where one feeds the other in a continuous loop of breakthroughs.

She selected to be one of the class of 2023 ArtPop. Her art has been featured on a billboard in Times Square and on local billboards around the country. She is part of StudioWorks, a collective of 12 female artists in the heart of Dillworth in Charlotte, and she is a resident artist at the Nine Eighteen Nine Gallery in uptown Charlotte. She is on the Board of the Guild of Charlotte Artists as Co-Chair of the Exhibition Committee, she has a PhD in Education from UCLA and has spent the last 28 years helping kids become creative thinkers.

Artisan’s Palate Exhibit

The art in this exhibit results from the free experimentation of form and color. In the process of creating this art, I asked myself many questions: Which colors create depth? What forms mimic patterns in nature? What shapes move the eye across the form? I was not “painting” a landscape or any recognizable object. Instead, I want to create form and color that leads you, the viewer, to those thoughts. In viewing these pieces, ask yourself these questions: How do I feel when I look at this? What do I see? Do as I do in creating this artistic journey. Experiment with what you see and feel. Change your viewing angle, squint, unfocus and refocus your eyes. Is there a shape or color that draws you in? Is there a particular piece that tells you a story?