Featured Artwork
- Tres Árboles (Three Trees)
- "Art has the power to tell stories, inspire belonging, and celebrate representation.... BRIC’s office remodel represented an exciting opportunity to embrace this process within our own workplace. Over the past several months, our Office Art Committee has led a thoughtful, staff-driven process centering the voices of... local artists to commission work that speaks to themes like identity, connection, and learning."
- flat, installation
- appliqué, dyeing, embroidery, sewing
- beads, canvas, fabric, feathers, found-objects, salvaged, thread, upholstery, trim
- 2025
- commission
- 108 × 42 inches
- The Tres Árboles (Three Trees) triptych portrays three distinct yet interconnected trees. These forms symbolize personal learning, growth, and development within schools. Their leafy canopies are adorned with unique embroidered details and found objects, evoking individuality and diversity. Collectively, the leaves abstractly represent students, educators, staff, and community members—individuals who together create a living canopy of support, protection, and enrichment. Tres Árboles (Three Trees) was commissioned by BRIC Architecture, and is on permanent display in their newly renovated office.
- sold
- Orquidia Violeta
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About Orquidia
Orquidia Violeta is a prolific independent Salvadoran-American textile artist working in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in a simple farmhouse in Central America, and crossed the US border as a six-year-old refugee.
Orquidia combines salvaged textiles with elements of embroidery, knitting, weaving, appliqué, soft-sculpture, fiber-collage, painting and dyeing to tell complex colorful stories drawn from her own experiences and from her research.
Orquidia was a resident artist for 3 months at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology where she created textile works outside on the land and investigated native practices.
Last summer Orquidia joined Hispanic artists from around the Americas at the inaugural Stelo Summer Invitational Residency at Camp Colton to continue work on the Chalecos Protector series while immersed in a bucolic natural setting.
Orquidia is a member of Ideal PDX, a collaborative group of Latino visual and performing artists in the Northwest based in Portland, Oregon.
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