Isabella Despujols is a young visual artist from Venezuela with a focus on handmade embroidery. Despujols graduated with a BFA from the International University of Art and Design in Miami and holds a degree in Art History from the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires. Isabella's work reflects her own history, born from her earliest visual references. "My parents are architects, and I grew up surrounded by geometric drawings of projects they worked on. They also collected Venezuelan artists with geometric abstract works, so the first works of art I encountered already posed that language. For me, geometry is the basis of my first influences, and of the strong tradition of these movements in my country, which grew out of great masters such as Cruz-Diez and Jesús Soto. I pay homage to both in my work." For the artist, embroidery is currently her favorite discursive medium. Due to her knowledge of oil painting (she was trained in Fine Arts with a specialization in painting) she develops a technique in which she works the embroidery as if it were painting: "I embroider layers of colors that are juxtaposed and form new colors, resulting in that chromatic degradation that is perceived in all the works." When it comes to creating, there are two universes that particularly inspire Isabella: Kinetic Art, especially the artists Cruz Diez and Jesús Soto, and embroidery and its feminine tradition. Isabella combines these two universes. She takes the legacy of these artists and translates it with lines and the imperfections of manual work. Her main objective has to do with extending or expanding what we know as embroidery and its characteristics, which are often figurative images, utilitarian, and domestic, and combining it with kinetic art to elevate it, so that it ceases to be a craft and instead, becomes fine art. EDUCATION BA, Art History, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2020)BFA, International University of Art and Design in Miami (2014) SELECT EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS AND COMMISSIONS 2023“O Fio Que Contacto” in the Brasilia Art Museum 2022Art Madrid, Madrid, SpainPinta Miami, Miami, FLSP-Arte, São Paulo, BrazilArtRio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2021SP-Arte with Jackie Shor Projects“Mulheres na arte” at Taller Zaragoza, São Paulo, Brazil"Multiple Forms of Continuity in Space" at the Periscopio Arte Contemporánea gallery in Belo Horizonte, Brazil"Embroidered Geometry" at Garaje Lola, Madrid, Spain 2020Group show: “Artistas da galeria” at the Periscópios Arte contemporânea gallery, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2019Textile art installation at Casa FOA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2018"1st Painting Salon with Textile Intervention" at the Argentine Center for Textile Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017"Young Art Show" at Espacio Cabrera, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2014"Juried Show" at Curator's Voice Art Projects Gallery, Miami, USAMUSEUM & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Despujols’s work is currently part of the collection of the Inhotim Institute Museum (2021), the FAMA Museu (2023), and the Brasilia Art Museum (2023).