Announcement
I'm uploading my current work, and select works from the past 20 years to my new Artworks archive.
Explore my Artworks ›
I’m open to new commissions! My email is contact@orquidiavioleta.com
Can't wait to explore what you have for me.
Featured Artwork
- Hecho en Casa
- Artist: Orquidia Violeta
- Method: appliqué, dyeing, embroidery, sewing, weaving
- Medium: feathers, canvas, fabric, found-objects, woven, upholstery
- Year: 2021
- Statement: This textile art piece was commission for The Rockwood Village Lobby Art in Greasham. It was an honor making this piece.
- Dragon & Mermaid Under Water in the Willamette River
- Series: Fire on the Water
- Artist: Orquidia Violeta
- Artform: flat
- Method: appliqué, beadwork, dyeing, embroidery, sewing
- Medium: beads, buttons, canvas, fabric, feathers, found-objects, lace, woven, upholstery, trim, shells
- Year: 2020
- Statement: This would be my third year doing The Dragon Boat Art Show in May. The pandemic took over our lives. I did this piece to shield me from the truth. I used everything in my studio/bedroom like: buttons, feathers, bottle cap, pearls, earrings, medallion, shells, and salvaged encapsulated in mesh all items were found in the Willamette River, even the plastic unicorn. Still available $400 46 Width x 41 Length x 1 inches
Exhibitions
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Portland Textile Month
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art-1855 SW Broadway Steet Portland, OR 97201 United States
https://www.textilex.org/event/collaborative-poetic-weaving/
Inspired by Japanese Renga poetry and Surrealist Exquisite Corpse drawings, participants will create a collaborative woven poem
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Portland Textile Community Spotlight
https://www.textilex.org/community-spotlight-orquidia-violeta/
I sincerely appreciate to Portland Textile Month for choosing me and my textile art!
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My People's Market
The Redd (831 SE Salmon St. Portland, OR 97214)
https://www.mypeoplesmarket.com/
My People’s Market is a marketplace re-imagined as a gathering of Portland’s diverse and vibrant entrepreneurs, makers, artists, culinary wizards, and beverage crafters.
Come and buy a Christmas gift. I will have veggie-ponchos, dresses, onesies and bibs for kids. Can't wait to see YOU there!
Dealers
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Built Marketplace
You can find my work at My People´s Market in the new Built Oregon Marketplace
https://www.builtoregon.shop/pages/seller-profile?orquidia-violeta
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Orquidia Violeta Etsy Shop
A unique shop, where you can find my one-of-a-kind items.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/OrquidiaVioleta
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.
Contact
email contact@orquidiavioleta.com
instagram @orquidia_violeta
twitter @or_violet