Beatriz Cortez

Beatriz Cortez was born in San Salvador, El Salvador and now resides/works in Los Angeles and Davis, CA. Cortez is well known and renowned for her towering metal sculptures that explore simultaneity, life in different temporalities, and imaginaries of the future. Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist and is fascinated with exploring themes of time. Although she works with rigid and stiff metals, her art is rather fluid seemingly flowing through time--existing in the present, past and future. Her work is featured in the following collections: The Broad Museum at MSU (East Lansing, MI), El Paso Museum of Art (El Paso, Texas), Ford Foundation (New York, New York), Mario Cader-Fench Collection (Miami, Florida), and Museo Comunitario Kaqjay (Patzicía, Guatemala). Cortez also participated in the Cerritos College Art + TECH Artist-in-Residence in 2015 where she worked alongside Cerritos' very own welding students. 

The Aptitude Test Box

Multiple small pieces of paper in front of metal box.

2016

Multimedia Object

12 x 4 in.

Gift of the Artist (Art+Tech Residency)