WYNWOOD MIAMI FINE ART
“Nicaraguan artist Ivette Cabrera’s delicate drawings, of women: real and imagined elaborate headdresses. The black, white and red crowns transcend fashion trends and sovereign traditions, resembling weightless, geometric diagrams ― part botanical, part architectural ― that allude to the endless, blossoming potential of its wearers. They are material and immaterial, regal and boundless.” ”
“Her art merges transformational imagery found in nature with traditional forms of royal adornment. ”
Ivette Cabrera’s art beautifully tells the story of womanhood. Her unique pieces are a statement of how all women evolve to become their most beautiful selves. BSB is honored to not only share Ivette’s work below but the powerful stories that accompany each piece. Be inspired by this talented BSB who is shaping the south with her incredible gift. -
-Black Southern Belle
“Her work is inspired by powerful women who have changed the course of history. She works in attempt to highlight and breakdown the barriers the society has presented upon women.”
“Ivette possesses this exceptional creative force that manifests in regal portraits of women, which give a collective voice and face to our forgotten foremothers. All their strength, pain, power, and femininity are intricately drawn into her headdresses, and it’s a magical process to witness.””
“Ivette Cabrera wants women, especially those with histories of oppression and marginalization, to view themselves as royalty. The Nicaraguan architect-turned-artist is famous for placing crowns on the female subjects of her pieces, whether they be queens, goddesses, rebel fighters or the everyday barrier-breaking badass.”
“WYNWOOD, FL: Ivette Cabrera is a Nicaraguan born artist whose work is inspired by powerful women who have changed the course of history. She works in attempt to highlight and breakdown the barriers the society has presented upon women. Many of the subjects in her art include women wearing headdresses. Cabrera states on the subject: “I want women to question their own identity so the headdress art is abstract, showing that every woman wears a crown.”
Cabrera’s uses her background in studying architecture to channel her creativity into art. She has also opted for public art along with her drawings. The artist has stated that she has been inspired by architect Zaha Hadid, along with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright and many admirers of her work have testified to the voice the influence brings to her art”
Latin American Artists in Miami
Nicaraguan Artist
Wynwood Artist
ARTIST STATEMENT
Ivette Cabrera is a Nicaraguan artist who was born in 1983. Her family descends from natives from the Island of Ometepe and Chichigalpa in Nicaragua. She migrated to the Miami, FL at the age of three with her siblings and mother escaping the US backed Contra War that preceded the Sandinista Revolution.
Although Cabrera was not classically trained in art, she has dedicated the last 15 years of her life to mastering her art form in many mediums including architecture. Her artwork has been featured in museum exhibitions and part of numerous private and public art collections. Cabrera produces fine art graphite drawings, paintings, public art murals, sculptures and installations. She is best known for her headdress portraits of women from various cultures.
"My works represent women of various cultures who wear headdresses as a symbol of power and importance. Influenced by the lines and forms in architecture the headdresses are hand drawn in an abstract way using a mix of free-styled forms and rulers as well as a magnifying glass for extreme detail. My main focus is to empower people from our underrepresented cultures across the world to strive with a stronger sense of pride in their creative skills and abilities. "
Ivette Cabrera studied Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Art University and Marketing Communications at Columbia College. Sacred Spring is her most recently completed series of portraits of women wearing tribal geometric crowns but recent commissions have pushed her work into murals and paintings on canvas.
Cabrera's artwork has been part of numerous gallery exhibitions in Wynwood and museums such as the Baker Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum, Villa Paula Museum and Spectrum Art Fair during Art Basel. Cabrera's artworks have been published in Huffington Post, Miami New Times. Woven Tale Press, Starry Nights Artists to Look Out For Catalog, KDWA Radio and featured in numerous commercials nationwide for brands such as John Frieda.
In 2012, she pioneered a four year artist residency in Wynwood Miami named Viophilia as an artistic sanctuary for artists to work intensively on their craft. Over the last 10 years she has curated over 19 art exhibitions for other artists in her community. Today she works with her art team The Color Dreamers creating artworks for commercial projects and city governments through her public art and murals.
Wynwood Fine Artist studied Interior Architecture and Design.
"My work is always evolving into new forms of expression. It adapts to new environments, learns new knowledge and language to communicate new messages. It becomes part of the fabric of society creating beauty. It’s important to shine light on roles of women within various cultures worldwide. In past cultures, a crown gave worth to an individual, it indicated their wealth and defined their status within that society regardless of their gender or race. I want women to question their own identity within their current society. Every woman wears a crown…a headdress. if she were only to be aware of herself and her own powerful beauty."
More information on Cabrera's current projects and biography is available upon request. Links to articles on Cabrera's work can be found HERE.