Name: Marcela Bolívar
Current location: Cali (Colombia)
Marcela is a digital artist whose passion for photography and illustration has led her to express herself through photomanipulation since 2004. During these years she has found and developed her own style, in which she has combined multiple techniques, being painting, drawing and even sculpture part of the execution of her work.
Her compositions all based in photographs, undergo a complex process of transformation, assemblage and detailing that brings them closer to a pictorial expression.
Marcela Bolivar‘s photo illustrations have a light touch — the figures and surrounding flowers, plants and fabrics appear to billow in the wind, as if they might be blown away at any moment. Sticking to a mostly pale color palette, Bolivar gives her characters an elegant essence. We see them morphing and changing their shape to blend in with elements of nature, as if they behold mystical powers we can’t quite comprehend.
Nastia Voynovskaya
HI-FRUCTOSE
If you wish to hire her for your personal or commercial project fill the CONTACT form or send her an e-mail at m4rcelab@gmail.com
Awards | Recognition
- Cum laude award | Bachelor’s degree thesis Azufre, Mercurio y Ceniza | Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes Cali | 2011
- First Place | Photo Technique Magazine Juried Exhibition: The Photographic Experience | USA | May 2011
- Winner, Outstanding Amateur Photography Award | Camera Obscura. Journal of literature & photography | Vol 2 Winter 2010 | USA
- Picture of the week | Advanced Photoshop Magazine | United Kingdom | August 2010
- Excellence award in horror/surreal category | EXPOSÉ 5 Finest digital art in the known universe |Ballistic Publishing | Australia | 2007
- First Prize in Photomontage category | Feria Nacional de Fotografía | Cali, Colombia | 2006
Lectures | Conferences
- Captured: Encuentro de fotografía | Instituto tecnológico de Monterrey| Conference – workshop | Monterrey, Mexico 2013
- Cuestiones de Diseño | Universidad del Cauca | Conference | Popayán, Colombia 2013
- Hoy es Diseño | Universidad ICESI | Photo-illustration Conference | Cali, Colombia 2012
- II Encierro Nacional e Internacional de Fotografía | Escuela de Fotografía del Valle | Photo-illustration Conference | Cali, Colombia 2012
- Semana del Diseño Javeriano 2012 | Universidad Javeriana | Photo-illustration Conference | Cali, Colombia 2012
- Workshop: Photo-illustration and digital photo-montage techniques | Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes | Cali, Colombia 2010 – 2011
Press | Bibliography
- BLUECANVAS | Feature | Issue 14 | USA
- The Printed Blog | Feature | Deja Vu Issue. 2012 |USA
- Exposé 10 | Surreal category | Ballistic Publishing | Australia
- Curvy 8 | Curvy World Media | Australia
- Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber. Edited by Centipede Press | Cover and inside art | USA
- Advanced Photoshop Magazine (Germany) | Article | Issue November 2011 | Germany
- Advanced Photoshop Magazine | Reader’s gallery | Issue 87 2011 | UK
- Photo Technique Magazine | Cover and review | July/August 2011 | USA
- Exposé 9 | Surreal category | Ballistic Publishing | Australia
- Camera Obscura Journal of literature & photography | Vol 2 Winter 2010 |USA
- Advanced Photoshop Magazine | Interview, Picture of the week |Issue 75 2010 | UK
- Bacánika Magazine |Issue 17 | Ilustration for the article “La respuesta de la ciencia” | Colombia
- SYNK Magazine | Cover and interview | Issue 1. October 2007 | Australia
- Dark Realm Magazine | Article | Issue 26 2007 | USA
- Exposé 5 | Excellence award | Ballistic Publishing | Australia
