The Breathing Stone

Beatriz Cortez

The Breathing Stone, 202160 x 61 x 75cmSign in to view price
Details
MaterialGallery
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork presents a weathered and textured stone or rock formation, featuring a rugged, organic shape with a mottled surface in shades of gray and brown. The composition emphasizes the natural curves and crevices of the material, showcasing its inherent beauty and the effects of time and erosion. The artist's focus on the raw, unpolished quality of the stone suggests a minimalist, earthy aesthetic that highlights the intrinsic qualities of the natural world. This piece may reflect the artist's interest in the beauty found in the imperfections and impermanence of natural forms, inviting the viewer to appreciate the inherent artistry in the unaltered elements of the environment. ...

Similar Artworks
Untitled #3, série Algérie Année 0
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Untitled #3, série Algérie Année 0, 2012
80 x 100cm
Untitled #6, série Rencontre
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Untitled #6, série Rencontre, 2015
28 x 21cm
A Gente Xingu
Carolina Caycedo
A Gente Xingu, 2016
900 x 300cm
Manganese Intensive
Carolina Caycedo
Manganese Intensive, 2025
89 x 89cm
Pale, Bosnia
Lien Truong
Pale, Bosnia, 1995
17 x 21cm
Studio Dakar (Oumou)
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Studio Dakar (Oumou), 2018
40 x 30cm
Untitled (black clouds)
Latifa Echakhch
Untitled (black clouds), 2015
101 x 268 x 14cm
Gonads Vessel (Striped Cat Demon)
Candice Lin
Gonads Vessel (Striped Cat Demon), 2020
24.13 x 11.43 x 19.05cm
Big Woman/Mujer grande
Carolina Caycedo
Big Woman/Mujer grande, 2017
215.9 x 66.04 x 157.48cm
SNOW DRIFT
Shannon Ebner
SNOW DRIFT, 2022
55.1 x 37.3 x 4.1cm
Papillon Monarque ( Migration Is Beautiful)
Andrea Bowers
Papillon Monarque ( Migration Is Beautiful), 2015
204 x 352cm
Untitled #4, série Algérie Année 0
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Untitled #4, série Algérie Année 0, 2012
30 x 40cm
Untitled
Camille Henrot
Untitled, 2016
54.6 x 42cm
Joy in Paperwork 383
Amalia Pica
Joy in Paperwork 383, 2015
29.7 x 21cm
Element Series No. 3 (Interstice)
Glen Wilson
Element Series No. 3 (Interstice), 2022
106.7 x 71.1 x 15.2cm
Beatriz Cortez
Artist
Beatriz Cortez
B.1970, Salvadoran

Beatriz Cortez is an artist who creates sculptures and large-scale public installations that focus on themes of migration, movement, and cultural exchange. Drawing inspiration from her own experience of immigrating to the United States from El Salvador, she incorporates indigenous elements such as plants and stones from the Americas into her sculptures to highlight the parallels between the migration of people and plants. In her public installations, she includes weather and other atmospheric conditions to encourage viewers to consider the vast time spans marked by the planet's movements, the presence of non-human worlds with different timeframes all around us, and the ways in which materials are affected by their location and interactions with the environment. Her most popular work, Tzolk’in (2018), is a large-scale mechanical sculpture that incorporates elements of Mayan cosmology and technology. The machine is inspired by the ancient Maya calendar that was used for agriculture, and its gears move in a way that combines circular and linear motion. Her work imagines a new kind of space that brings together different histories and cultures, acknowledging global and cosmic nomadism and envisioning the potential for divergent entities to coexist. ...

Beatriz Cortez: Artworks
Who do you believe more, the subversives or the embassy? (W. Washington blvd and Hoover St., LA, CA, USA)
Beatriz Cortez
Who do you believe more, the subversives or the embassy? (W. Washington blvd and Hoover St., LA, CA, USA), 2021
253 x 116 x 19cm
The Breathing Stone
Beatriz Cortez
The Breathing Stone, 2021
60 x 61 x 75cm
The Underworld
Beatriz Cortez
The Underworld, 2021
168 x 168 x 23cm
Roots 4
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 4, 2020
112 x 64 x 48cm
Roots 5
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 5, 2020
155 x 59.69 x 54cm
Roots 6
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 6, 2021
155 x 36 x 46cm
Roots 7
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 7, 2021
154 x 52 x 37cm
Roots 8
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 8, 2021
74 x 35.566 x 18cm
FOREVER YOUNG
Beatriz Cortez
FOREVER YOUNG, 2021
94 x 94 x 94cm
2 x 2
Beatriz Cortez
2 x 2, 2019
61 x 61 x 61cm
UNTITLED (from .bury.me.fiercely.)
Beatriz Cortez
UNTITLED (from .bury.me.fiercely.), 2021
66 x 53 x 4cm
Hidden
Beatriz Cortez
Hidden, 2017
29 x 37 x 4cm
I expected something (dedicated to A.C.)
Beatriz Cortez
I expected something (dedicated to A.C.), 2017
29 x 37 x 4cm
Roots 1
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 1, 2020
71 x 81 x 61cm
Roots 2
Beatriz Cortez
Roots 2, 2020
78 x 51 x 48cm
Tombstone/Lápida
Beatriz Cortez
Tombstone/Lápida, 2020
85 x 55 x 4cm
Five Point Hood Shield (light blue)
Beatriz Cortez
Five Point Hood Shield (light blue), 2019
62 x 66 x 7cm
Fifteen Point Shield 1
Beatriz Cortez
Fifteen Point Shield 1, 2019
61 x 66 x 8cm
Nine Point Custom Made Shield
Beatriz Cortez
Nine Point Custom Made Shield, 2016
76 x 84 x 20cm
The Argonaut: after Pakal
Beatriz Cortez
The Argonaut: after Pakal, 2018
318 x 127 x 153cm
Commonwealth and Council
Gallery
Commonwealth and Council
Los Angeles, Mexico City

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...

Unlock Price & Inquiry Access