María Oriza (Aranda de Duero, 1964) began her artistic career in the early 1990s, always focused on contemporary sculpture, working with materials such as iron, concrete, polyester, and stoneware. Her training at the Escuela de Cerámica Francisco Alcántara and the Escuela Municipal de la Moncloa in Madrid in the 1980s provided her with a solid technical foundation, which she later applied to the development of her own method. This approach has resulted in distinctive works where the relationship between volume and surface offers a personal vision of sculpture. In 2007 she was appointed member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Her work has been recognized with various awards and has been published in Spain, Germany, Italy, China, the United States, and Chile.

Her work

At the core of her work lies the idea of emptiness as a container of the immaterial. This conception arises from her way of understanding and constructing volume starting from the plane: cutting, joining, curving, folding, and exploring symmetries, asymmetries, and repetitions.

Each physical action directly affects the material, defining the flow of form and creating a unique language that gives content to the work. From this analysis emerge multiple symbolic and metaphorical connotations.

This method of generating volume from a plane allows giving meaning to the resulting emptiness and clearly perceiving the energy that flows between interior and exterior, as well as across the different surfaces that make up the piece.

On the surface, intervention through drawing, lines, networks, and grids becomes a recurring resource that reveals the formal structure of the volume, providing it with unity and coherence.

In her installation works, Oriza investigates the occupation of space through repetitive elements, generating compositions that evoke the growth of an abstract nature. The drawing on the surface transforms with the viewer's movement and the change of perspective, expanding the limits of form and enriching its visual reading.