ART IS MY PASSION

“I  Create Modern Pieces by Blending the Renaissance, Baroque Period & Pop Art, for the Homes of Today” -Nela

Marianela Holly

Visual Artist • Photographer

Marianela Holly (b. Cali, Colombia)

Marianela Holly is a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer based in Miami, Florida. She studied Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia.

The work of Marianela Holly is an allegory of love as a feeling of connection, both physical and spiritual. Photography, design, collage, and painting are her favourite media. She draws on images from art history and evocative texts, which are fluidly juxtaposed on the artistic surface. In the process, she incorporates elements from mythology, literature, and philosophy, combining painterly gestures, collage, and the aesthetics of pop culture. In this way, she constructs a fluctuating imagery in which love is revealed in all its impetuosity, confusion, and abundance. There is a colours for every occasion, which can be as passionate as red, as intense as yellow, or as serene as blue.

Her compositions are dominated by the female image, symbol of fertility and beauty, but always imbued with a yearning pathos. The figures — whether a Venus or a Menina with the face of the Mona Lisa — are transformed into masses of color and words that spill out into space like desires and thoughts. Sometimes there are colors that splash, stains that show through, and letters that jump, but they are all part of the same grammar of love, which manifests itself in all its complexity.

– Félix Suazo – November, 2024

Awards

Art Fusion Gallery
“Subjects of Splendor”
“Glamorous Monalisa”
2nd Prize Winner
Annual International Fine Arts Competition
2013 / April 13
Miami – Florida

A National Juried Art Competition
“Celebration”
“Glamorous Monalisa”
Excellence Award
2012 / November 2
Fort Myers – Florida

Recent Exhibitions:

Spectrum Miami – Art Basel Week
“SOLO Exhibition”
2024 / December 4 – 8
Miami – Florida

Les Couleurs
“Group Exhibition”
2024 / October 12
Miami – Florida

Artbox.Project New York
“Venus in Love”
2023 / December 6 – 10
Spectrum – Miami

Artbox.Project New York
“Venus in Love”
2023 / April 26
Manhattan – New York

Consulate General of Mexico Miami
“Hispanic Panels for Gay Pride Month”
2022 / June 14
Miami – Florida

Colour Sense Project Gallery
“Forbidden Fruits”
2021 / December 9
Miami – Florida

Red Dot Miami – Art Basel Week
“Miami Art Week”
2021 / December 1
Miami – Florida

Colour Sense Project Gallery
“Tendencies”
2021 / October 30
Miami – Florida

HISPAFEST
“Walkabout”
2020 / March 11
Miami – Florida

Five Innovations Art
“Latin American Artists’ Book Gala”
2018 / October 18
Miami – Florida

Five Innovations Art
“Art Fusion by”
2018 / May
Miami – Florida

Aqua Foundation For Women
“Aqua Affair – Member Gala”
2017 / October 26
Miami – Florida

Pridelines
“Celebrate Orgullo”
2017 / October 10
Miami – Florida

R House – White Porch Gallery
“Surprise”
2017 / February 17
Miami – Florida

First Service Realty
“Meninas”
2016 / December 2
Miami – Florida

R House – White Porch Gallery
“Art for Equality”
2016 / November 29
Miami – Florida

R House – White Porch Gallery
“Art for Equality”
2015 / December 1
Miami – Florida

R House – White Porch Gallery
“Art for Equality”
2014 / December 2
Miami – Florida

Lucid Gallery
“Lovely Night”
2014 / April  
Princeton – Florida

OMA Orlando Museum of Art
1st Thursdays Fashionista
2011 / April 7
Orlando – Florida

My Inspirations

“Land really is the best art.”

Andy Warhol

“I would rather be the first painter of common things than second in higher art.”

Diego Velázquez