(Teresa Cuéllar began using the professional name Teyé at the suggestion of her lifelong friend and fellow Colombian artist Fernando Botero.) Passion, sensuality, power, and the essence of the feminine are reflected in the stunningly beautiful paintings of Teyé, one of Colombia's best-known and most respected artists. She has perfected a style of misty realism which gives remarkable life and personality to the most common objects - an apple, an onion, a flower. Each magnificent object, astonishingly complex and full of detail, floats on a glowing background which projects it forward like a new universe plucked from a garden. Her style has evolved over the years - moving from an abstract figurativism to a very personal form of crisp naturalism. Throughout her career, she has mostly painted still life - fruit, vegetables, and flowers - depicting these everyday objects as luminous, colorful embodiments of sensuous shapes, bursting with life and the suggestion of generativity. Teyé chooses the objects she paints from the grounds of her family's villa in Chía, Colombia - a beautiful spot in the hills located an hour from Bogotá. While a student at Universidad Nacional and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Teyé began exploring her trademark still lifes, painting them at first with spatulas instead of brushes. Teyé continued her work in 1960-61 at the School of Fine Arts in Rome, where she lived with her husband, Colombian writer Antonio Montaña. During this time, she participated in important invitational art salons in Europe. She returned to Colombia in the early 60s, and began painting with brushes, giving her work its current vibrant look and today Teyé is more prolific than ever. She continues to produce her extraordinary oil paintings, which now display a confident maturity and power. A remarkably versatile artist. Teye's superb mezzotints engravings of floral arrangements use similar skillfull methods of Albrecht Durer. Teresa Cuéllar's (Teyé) art work has been shown in over 40 group shows in Colombia. Below is a list of her one women shows in Colombia: 1963 - Galería El Callejón, Bogotá, . 1965 - Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, . 1968 - Galería Marta Traba, "Neobodegones 2," Bogotá, . 1969 - Galería de la Alianza Colonbo-Francesa, "Dibujos," Bogotá, . 1970 - Galería Bellarca, "Hongos," Bogotá, . - Sala del Banco de la República, "Neobodegones 3," Bogotá, . 1972 - Sala Gregorio Vazques, "Diez años, Retrospectiva," Bogotá and Cartagena, . 1974 - El Callejón, "Naturaleza Casi Viva," Bogotá, . 1976 - El Callejón, "20 Obras Recientes," Bogotá, . 1978 - Galería Belarca, "18 Dibujos: Pequeño formato," Bogotá, . 1980 - Galería Granahorrar, Bogotá, . 1981 - Galería Belarca, "14 Pasteles," Bogotá, . 1983 - Galería Quintero, Barranquilla, . 1986 - Galería Negret, "Acercameintos," Bogotá, . 1989 - Art Autopista, "10 Pasteles and 6 Dibujos," Medellin, 1992 - Galería el Sextante, "Grabados," Bogotá, . - Salón Avianca, "30 Años Retrospectiva," Barranquilla, . - Centro Colombo Americano "30 Años, Retrospectiva," Bogotá, . Teyé International Showings 1963 - Chosen to represent in the "Second Biannual Show for Young Artists," Paris, France. - "Exhibitions of n Paintings," Fort Lauderdale, Florida US. - "Exposition de Arte no," Puerto Rico, US. 1965 - For second time she represents in the "Biannual Show for Young Artists," Paris, France. 1971 - "Arte no," Puerto Rico, USA. 1972 - Galería El Morro, "Diez Pintores nos," Puerto Rico, USA. 1982 - Christie's Gallery, "Latin American Auction," New York, New York, USA. 1983 - Christie's Gallery, "XIX and XX Century Latin American Painting," New York, New York, USA. 1985 -"Arte no Contemporáneo," Moscow and Leningrad, USSR. 1986 - Two of her painting are part of a museum tour through Europe and US, "Espacios Itinerante" 1986 - Christie's Gallery, "Latin American Auction," New York, New York, USA. 1989 - Christie's Gallery, "Latin American Auction," New York, New York, USA. |
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