Martha Vértiz’s (1941–2022) artistic career traverses abstraction from a personal path that avoids both pure geometric formalism and traditional figuration. Instead, she develops her own visual grammar, where form and color become engines of exploration and meaning, and where each work opens up a space for free invention and contemplation.

Starting from color and a more elemental form, Vértiz achieves compositions that suggest a constantly expanding vocabulary. Her pieces seem to articulate themselves as conjugations and declensions, as actions and gestures that transform the line of the drawing, the chromatic harmony, and the pictorial texture.

Throughout her career, the artist has gone through different creative stages, trying out various themes, materials, and techniques. However, her work has always been based on the same foundation: meticulous discipline and a sober and deliberate use of resources.