Teresa Oaxaca is a 21st century master and also a paradox of an artist.
The reason for that statement is that this incredibly gifted artist has demonstrated the ability, skill, presence, and consistency over the years that yield work that would have easily merit not just be one of the privileged few to hang in a survey show of the enormous magnitude as the 2025 Women Artists of the DMV show is shaping to be, but have easily been picked centuries ago, and centuries into the future for any survey exhibition.
She's an artistic time traveler who is resonant in 2025 and in 1925 and in 1825.. and don't be frightened, but also 1725, and Velazquez would be entranced by her work in 1625! And in a thousand years from now, Aliens from other planetary systems will be seduced by her work.
This is a rare skill - her work appears to explore some of the iconic painting genres of the glorious past days of painting - and it does that as well as any master of the time back then - but then it adds that brilliant psychological nuance, so cleverly embedded and drafted into the visual presentation, that makes you stop and observe, and study and start creating mind narratives about what she is so brilliantly offering and presenting on canvas for your review.
It is this crucial (and sooooo hard to accomplish) skill, buried deep in her work, that makes her a triumphant timeless painter, who easily resonates in this century.
Behold The Feast Of The Gods, Oil on Canvas, 44x65 inches, c. 2023:
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| The Feast Of The Gods by Teresa Oaxaca Oil on Canvas, 44x65 inches, c. 2023 |
