MARICELA GUTIERREZ HERNANDEZ WAS BORN IN MEXICO CITY, HER FAMILY SOON MOVED OUT TO THE RURAL AREA AT LOS ALTOS DE JALISCO, SHE ENJOYS DURING THAT TIME OF THE LANDSCAPES OF THE COLORFUL LANDSCAPE REFLECTED ON THE WEALTH OF COLORS IN HER ARTWORK.

IT WAS IN HER EARLY TEEN\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'S WHILE LIVING IN COSMOPOLITAN GUADALAJARA CITY WHEN SHE NOTICED HER NATURAL SKILL FOR DRAWING AND PAINTING, IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF SELF-TAUGHT TRAINING ON ARTS.

MARICELA IS A PERMANENT RESIDENT IN LOS CABOS SINCE 1991 AND DIVIDES HER TIME CONCEPTUALIZING, DESIGNING AND CREATING BETWEN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA, LOS CABOS, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR AND GUADALAJARA, JALISCO.

HER FORMAL ARTISTIC TRAINING IS WITH GLASS MASTER & TEACHER ROSARIO HERRERA (CO-AUTHOR \\\" GLASS MANUAL BOOK \\\" ), GLASS MASTER AND TEACHER MAYTE SEPULVEDA AND GLASS MASTER & TEACHER MAGDALENA LOPEZ VERGARA.

GLASS IS DEFINITLY THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH MARICELA FINDS THE FERTILE FIELD TO DEVELOP HER SKILLS, IDEAS AND ARTISTIC CONCERNS, FROM THEN ON DOVOTED HERSELF TO CONCEPTUALIZE, DESIGN AND CREATE OUTSTANDING ARTGLASS.

MARICELA MERGES SILVER AND / OR COPPER TO GLASS AT TEMPERATURES UP TO 1.4 OO F, CHALLENGING THE DIFFERENT THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS BETWEEN GLASS AND METALS, NOTABLE GLASS ARTWORK PIECES ARE OBTAINED WICH ARE APPRECIATED BY ART COLLECTIONISTS LOOKING FOR ORIGINAL AND DISTINCTIVE ART.

TECHNIQUES SKILLED BY MARICELA ARE : - FUSING - GRISAILLE (technique dating from the XI century) - THERMOFORMED GLASS - FRITOGRAPHY - STRIPED GLASS - GLASS MOSAIC - LOST WAX SCULPTURE IN GLASS - LEADED GLASS - GLASS PASTE (PATE DE VERRE) - GOLDEN GLASS - GLAZED GLASS - PRINT IN GLASS - GLASS JEWELRY .

HER IDEAS, CONCEPTS, EXPERIENCES AND FEELINGS ARE SUBJECT ON THE ABSTRACT OR FIGURATIVE HIGH QUALITY ARTGLASS.

MARICELA GUTIERREZ IS THE ONLY ARTIST TO MASTER THE WIDEST VARIETY OF ARTISTIC GLASS TECHNIQUES IN ALL BAJA PENINSULA AND ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE IN ALL MEXICO.

MARICELA GUTIERREZ ARTISTIC EXPRESIONS HAVE BEING EXHIBITED IN ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL FORUMS.

HER WORK CAN BE APPRECIATED IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF SEVERAL HOTELS IN LOS CABOS (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC) IN RESTAURANTS AND BARS IN THE STATE AND MOSTLY IN PRIVATE RESIDENCES AND COLLECTIONS IN USA, MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE AND ASIA.

MARICELA GUTIERREZ GETS RECOGNITION IN 2003 BY CONACULTA (NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS) AND CSI (SOUTHCALIFORNIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE) TO HER PROJECTS \" CONTEMPORARY VISION OF PREHISPANIC ART IN BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR \" AND \" CURRENT SILVER JEWELRY IN BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR \".

YOU CAN APPRECIATE AN BUY HER ARTWORK IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF GUADALAJARA AT THE ART 21 GALLERY .