BIOGRAPHY
Multidisciplinary visual artist Delsy Rubio was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where she successfully completed her studies in Plastic Expression, with a focus on Drawing and Painting and Graphic Arts, at the “Julio Árraga” School of Plastic Arts (1979-1985).
From an early age, her passion for art led her to develop a solid career as a graphic designer, an experience that is reflected in the precision and visual balance of her artistic work.
Her practice, rooted in geometric abstraction, explores harmony as a conscious act of balance between humanity and nature. Inspired by intangible concepts, she creates minimalist and monochromatic compositions where geometry becomes a language of connection and transformation, emphasizing light, volume, and spatial continuity.
Her creative process combines direct engagement with nature and advanced techniques, including precision cutting, molecular pigment transfer on aluminum, and automotive acrylics on wood, alongside the use of pure materials that reveal their intrinsic essence through form.
She has received international recognition, including an award from the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas (2019). Her work has been exhibited in Venezuela, the United States, Peru, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain, and continues to expand through residencies and intercultural collaborations that celebrate light, consciousness, and community.
She currently integrates her artistic practice with her curatorial role, serving as curator at Artifice Doral Gallery (Florida) since 2023, where she reflects on the tension between strength and fragility, understanding art as a bridge toward empathy, awareness, and transformation.
Rubio was the creator of the visual identity for the Maracaibo International Art and Antiques Fair (2004–2011) and the limited-edition series Buya (2018–2019). She is a contemporary member of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA), and part of Five in Motion, a Latin artists’ collective created by Art Nouveau Gallery.
DELSY RUBIO
By Edith Monge Silva
The mouth speaks of the richness of the heart, says the sacred text. This statement applies to all areas and, in particular, to art. There is no possible creation in its deepest sense, without the presence of the “animus” that rests in the artist’s mind.
In an increasingly refined language, Delsy Rubio explores the metaphor of man’s relationships with the universe, recreating the life cycles of the earth so closely linked to the cosmography of which we are part. The harmonious composition of curved and straight lines in her work also speaks to us of her own vital perception of his balance.
Delsy Rubio’s pieces are permeated with serenity and silence. All of them convey with delicate eloquence the close relationship with nature and their respect for an imaginary environment where excesses have no place.
Hers is a systematic work that has allowed her to explore from a very young age the richness of lines and colors, the simplicity of figures, minimalism, geometry and abstraction in an ordered universe, but at the same time flexible where volumes can generate the illusion of movement.
Hers is also the look accustomed to observing the play of light and shadow that is expressed, in her most recent works, through discontinuous reliefs and shapes that highlight the qualities of the materials used. It is this deliberate interruption in the relief that conveys the feeling that the levels are floating freely.
Faced with the aesthetic proposal of Delsy Rubio, the viewer manages to immerse himself as an interlocutor in the dialogue of his volumes and make the spaces they inhabit his own. It is therefore a fortunate encounter with art, a joint celebration between the public and the artist.-
Five in Motion – 3rd Edition, Group Exhibition. Miami, 2021
DELSY RUBIO INTERCONNECTED
By Carol Damian, Ph.D.
Geometric Abstraction is now a distinct and influential category of Modern Art in Venezuela. Delsy Rubio creates unique approaches to the style, technically and conceptually. Beyond the key components of compositions that are informed by rigorous attention to lines and forms based on geometric precision, her works are further dissected into interactive pieces, to fit together like a puzzle. In her latest series, she uses a special collage-like technique with industrial materials that play with space, light and reflection to enhance the surface and activate simple formal elements in the viewers’ eyes. Despite the reductive quality of the abstract method, these works are inspired by nature, time, and place. In this difficult and challenging period marked by a pandemic and political crisis in her homeland, she takes solace in the careful manipulation of each unit to produce composite imagery open to many interpretations and arrangements. Nature is basic to her process: subtle references to the cycles of the moon, the sea, and mountain views may be observed, but are not necessary for the work’s effectiveness. The viewer is invited to perceive personal meaning within, to identify the essence of nature, or to just appreciate the design aesthetic that informs the careful assembly of the parts.-
Vacuus Solo Exhibition. Curatorial Text. Miami, 2021