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First Name	Roberto
Last Name	Ortiz
Born	1960-08-18
Country	Puerto Rico


Biography
I was born in New Orleans Louisiana on August 18, 1960 the youngest of three brothers. As a child my mother kept me occupied with coloring books, building block and clay while she attended to her housework. This was my first experience with creativity and I was hooked. My first experience with oil painting came when I was fifteen when my mother bought me paint by numbers set which proved to be a both challenging and inspiring. Not long after, my high school art teacher, Bill Taylor, saw potential in my ability and introduced me to surrealism through the art of Salvador Dali. I knew then that I wanted to pursue art and painting as a career. I attended Southeastern University in Hammond, Louisiana for my first year in college and dutifully declared my major in business in accordance with my fathers plan. At mid-semester I changed my major to Fine Arts without first consulting with my father. I transferred to University of New Orleans and continued on my path to a degree in Fine Arts which I received in 1983 with my despondent father in attendance. In 1986 I moved to New York City where I lived for ten years. There I learned more of the business side of the art world by attending a commercial art school, working in art galleries and eventually opening my own frame shop in Soho. In 1996 I moved to Rincon, Puerto Rico where I opened the Secret Garden Art Gallery. After three years I closed the gallery to return to New Orleans, having been gone for thirteen years. Back in New Orleans I met Jonathan Ferrara who now represents me at his gallery. I opened my own antique restoration business along with a frame shop co-owned by Jonathan Ferrara. The year of 2005 brought Hurricane Katrina which completely destroyed my antique restoration business and severely crippled my framing business. In December, 2006 I returned to Puerto Rico to manage the guesthouse business owned by my brothers and I and also to reopen the Secret Garden Art Gallery where I continue to paint and sell art.

Style Abstract

A 20th century style of painting in which nonrepresentational lines, colors, shapes, and forms replace accurate visual depiction of objects, landscape, and figures. The subjects often stylized, blurred, repeated or broken down into basic forms so that it becomes unrecognizable. Intangible subjects such as thoughts, emotions, and time are often expressed in abstract art form.

Heart of the Jungle
by Ortiz

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Style Surrealism

An art style developed in Europe in the 1920's, characterized by using the subconscious as...

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Style Abstract Expressionism

Movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous...

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