Artist’s Statement
Painting is a meditative and reflective practice, a space to contemplate life and what it means to be human within an ever-changing world. It is both an inward and outward act, allowing me to process personal experience while responding to the shifting society that surround us. My work explores a existence where harmony and conflict coexist, revealing tension and beauty found within imagined space.
Through layering, obscuring, and reworking the surface, I mirror the ways memory, emotion, and environment overlap and reshape one another. The canvas becomes a site of accumulation and erasure, where fragments interact, resist, and ultimately find a fragile equilibrium. Each painting exists in a state of flux and motions, embracing contradiction as a active and necessary expression of its being.
In this way, the work holds a dialogue between harmony and conflict, stillness and momentum, tracing the layered rhythms of human experience . Each painting is a space open to interpretation and discovery, inviting viewers to engage with the tensions and possibilities inherent in both the work and the world it mirrors.
Painting is a meditative and reflective practice, a space to contemplate life and what it means to be human within an ever-changing world. It is both an inward and outward act, allowing me to process personal experience while responding to the shifting society that surround us. My work explores a existence where harmony and conflict coexist, revealing tension and beauty found within imagined space.
Through layering, obscuring, and reworking the surface, I mirror the ways memory, emotion, and environment overlap and reshape one another. The canvas becomes a site of accumulation and erasure, where fragments interact, resist, and ultimately find a fragile equilibrium. Each painting exists in a state of flux and motions, embracing contradiction as a active and necessary expression of its being.
In this way, the work holds a dialogue between harmony and conflict, stillness and momentum, tracing the layered rhythms of human experience . Each painting is a space open to interpretation and discovery, inviting viewers to engage with the tensions and possibilities inherent in both the work and the world it mirrors.
Bio
Lola Montejo is a Spanish-American abstract painter whose work explores the intersection of memory, time, and gestural expression. Born in Portsmouth, England, and raised in Madrid, Spain, Montejo immigrated to the United States as a teenager. She lived a short time in New York City when arriving to the US which served as a pivotal turning point; her exposure to the New York School and the raw freedom of Abstract Expressionism became a foundational and lifelong influence on her aesthetic.
Montejo holds an MFA in Studio Arts from Azusa Pacific University and a BFA from Metropolitan State University of Denver. Currently, Montejo is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including shows in Berlin, Mexico City, and throughout the United States. In 2024, her painting Meander was acquired for the permanent collection of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver.
Montejo is represented by William Havu Gallery (Denver), Moberg Gallery (Des Moines), and Oehme Graphics (Steamboat Springs) and Pamela Walsh Gallery (Palo Alto).
Montejo holds an MFA in Studio Arts from Azusa Pacific University and a BFA from Metropolitan State University of Denver. Currently, Montejo is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including shows in Berlin, Mexico City, and throughout the United States. In 2024, her painting Meander was acquired for the permanent collection of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver.
Montejo is represented by William Havu Gallery (Denver), Moberg Gallery (Des Moines), and Oehme Graphics (Steamboat Springs) and Pamela Walsh Gallery (Palo Alto).