Organic Minimalism

Organic Minimalism is a term of art coined in 2018 by visual artist Gisela Colón to describe her artistic practice of imbuing organic lifelike qualities into a vocabulary of minimal reductive forms, expanding and deconstructing the traditional male-dominated canon of minimalism and Light and Space.[1]

Colón defines Organic Minimalism as a visual and sensory artistic practice that generates perceptual experiences through a reductive vocabulary of forms that embody organic lifelike qualities of energy, movement, change, growth, transformation, evolution, gravity, and time, emanating radiant energy sourced from the Earth and beyond, becoming conduits of transmutation, transformation, and enlightenment. The practice of Organic Minimalism is said to draw raw energy from visible and invisible worlds, incorporating as materia prima the laws of physics, the intrinsic life force emanating from planet Earth, the powerful generative forces radiating throughout the cosmological realm, and the sublime mysteries of the quantum universe beyond.[2][3][4][5]

Colón first presented this art manifesto in a public lecture in 2018; Organic Minimalism as the theoretical foundation of this artistic practice began as early as 2012.[6]

References
  1. "Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. Eliel, Carol (2021). Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Delmonico Books. pp. 36–39, 80, 101. ISBN 9781942884996.
  3. Moore, Booth (3 December 2020). "L.A. Artist Gisela Colón on Organic Minimalism, Her New Solo Show and Dior Collaboration". Women's Wear Daily. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. "Artist Gisela Colón Goes From Earth to Beyond". Cultured. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. "Gisela Colon". Desert X. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  6. Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter (2015). Gisela Colon. Los Angeles: Ace Gallery. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-692-41011-0.


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