About the artist:

Description	:	ISOLINA LIMONTA (Born 1958) Isolina is a Caribbean artist who is a master of colography. Colography is a special en graving technique that permits a sophisticated juxtaposition of color and texture. She obtained a M.F.A. degree on painting and engraving at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). Since 1990 she has been a member of the prestigious TEG (Taller Experimental de la Grafica). Isolina is a close colaborador to ‘Decoro’, an interior design firm which specializes in Caribbean hotels and resorts. Isolina is based in Coyoacan, the artist’s village in Mexico city where numerous international artists work and live. “Isolina’s work refers to women in various ways. None of them naturalistic or photographic. The nudes and faces gently depicted, without tonal stridencies, connect with other bodies, or are broken by a fringe of color or a gestural trace. Continuity breaks, leading to a soft fragmentation and merging of the bodies. This maneuver, together with gentle lines and amazing colorations, convert the expressionless beautiful faces into a reference of human serenity, a state of being complete and inaccesible.” (Lissete Fraga Mena) She has exhibited her work in 52 shows, 25 of them international, such as: ‘The Magic of Mestiere’. (La Magia de Mestiere), Galería Grafic, Italy, 1991 “Caribbean Engraving” , C. Cultural Latinoamericano, Brescia, Italy, 1992 ‘Young Engravers’ Madrid, Spain 1993. ‘The Art of Colography’. Lituany.1993 Galería Forma, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1994. ‘Cuban Art II’. Images LTD, internacional gallery. U.S.A. 1996. ‘Contemporary Caribbean Art’ . Casa de la Cultura Villa Muriel de Cerrato, Spain, 1996. International Show .’ Engravings, Small Forma’t. Dominican Republic.1997. ‘Caribbean & Latin American Engraving’. XII Biennal.S. Juan, Puerto Rico, 1998. “Show for ‘Taller Experimental de Gráfica’ Santa . Fe, New México. 1999. ‘Luminous Sun’. Bernau Gallery. Berlín, Alemania. 2001 ‘Four Decades of Graphic Counterpoint’. Quito, Ecuador. 2002. ‘Isolina Limonta’.The Cuban Art Space. New York, 2003. ‘New Artists’. Havanna Gallery, Chicago, Ill. 2004. ‘Isolina Limonta, Lo ultimo’. Experimental de la Grafica. Havana, Cuba. 2004