Featured Artwork
- Árbol de la Vida
- This piece was selected for the Portable Works Public Art Collection. It was a true honor to win the Support Beam Grant Award, 2020. Support Beam is designed to support emerging artists’ long-term creative practice and livelihood during an unprecedented time.
- Día de Muertos
- flat
- appliqué, beadwork, dyeing, embroidery
- beads, canvas, fabric, found-objects, salvaged, upholstery, trim
- 2020
- 59 × 50 inches
- This work depicts the tree of life, symbolizing our connectedness, and the beauty of togetherness. The large tapestry depicts the artist's Grandparents as two Día de Muertos Calaveras holding hands forming the roots of a Tree of Life. The trunk and branches of the tree include indigenous Salvadoran, and personal imagery. The piece is machine and hand sewn, appliquéd, and embroidered using hand-dyed materials salvaged from around Portland. Currently on display in the newly renovated Multnomah County Central Library in Portland, Oregon.
- sold
- Orquidia Violeta
Events
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Beaverton City Hall Idealpdx: Chromatic Tapestry Show
12725 SW Millikan Way. Beaverton
The first time I'm in the Latino artist collective, Idealpdx. We have beautiful artworks at Beaverton City Hall called Chromatic Tapestry.
The art show will go on April 2 thru May 24, 2024.
You'll get to see my Tianguis Series first, four, and five floors.
Past events
About Orquidia
Orquidia Violeta is a Salvadoran-American textile artist. Growing up in a dirt-floored farmhouse in Central America, she remembers the embroidered pink dress her mother sent her from the US. Orquidia crossed the US border as a six-year-old refugee and went on to earn an Associate of the Arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Exposure to labor exploitation in the garment industry led her to co-found LaborFruit — a prominent artist-cooperative storefront and gallery in Los Angeles specializing in clothing as artform. Living in Portland Oregon, Orquidia continues to challenge herself as a textile artist, exploring new methods and mediums, such as machine and hand embroidery, knitting, weaving, appliqué, beadwork, fabric dyeing, soft sculpture, painting and drawing.
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