Art From Another Dimension
Message Behind Kiara's Works
"My works explore spiritual thinking and imaginative worlds, using bold colors and wavy lines to express those concepts. I let the colors connect with each other and let them dance across the canvas. The forms and shapes are highly exaggerated and appear in abstract form. Many of my works often have human-like beings interacting with landscapes or other beings. These works are dependent on the themes of spirituality, other dimensions/worlds, and essence of the inner self."
About
Kiara “Aris” Florez is an illustrator who expands upon abstract painting with themes of spirituality, femininity, self-expression, and imaginative worlds. Her latest process on art has taken her works into a more emotional approach, invoking deep, personal meanings as she navigates her healing journey. The forms found on canvas are loose depictions of human-like beings interacting with landscapes or other beings. Spiritual philosophy and mystical motifs are explored with bold colors and wavy lines overlapping with one another. Emotions clash with the vivid palette to capture the ever-changing composition as the process develops intuitively. Often her works portray stories that others can relate to through daily life experiences and self-identification. She has always been drawn to spirituality, other dimensions/worlds, and the inner self.
Kiara currently works full-time in a museum environment as she fuels her creative endeavors by exhibiting in galleries, festivals, and vendor markets across the Eastern Shore.
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GALLERY & EVENT FEATURES
2025
Dover Public Library, Here & Back Again Solo Show, Jan 4-March 29, Dover, DE
Camp Rehoboth, Roots & Resilience: Stories of Strength & Spirit, Jan 25-March 28, Rehoboth Beach, DE
2nd Annual Odyssey of The Arts Festival, June 8, Wilmington, DE
Rustic Ridge Farm Wellness Festival, July 19, West Decatur, PA
2024
Fair Hill Nature Center, Fair Hill Arts Festival, Elkton, MD
Smyrna Opera House, Unspoken Unity, Smyrna, DE
Maryland Folk Festival, Salisbury, MD
Huxley & Hiro Bookstore, Finding Elsewhere, Wilmington, DE
Bellefonte Arts, Summer Shop & Stroll, Wilmington, DE
Historic Amstel House Museum, Art in the Garden, New Castle, DE
Camp Adventureland, New Castle County Art Show, Middletown, DE
2023
Chris White Gallery, Extranjera/o, Wilmington, DE
The Delaware Contemporary, Other Pastures, Wilmington, DE
Alapocas Run State Park at the Blue Ball Barn, Only in Dreams, Wilmington, DE
Louis L. Redding Gallery, Out of This World, Wilmington, DE
Camp Rehoboth, FEST ART, Rehoboth, DE
Camp Rehoboth, Ignite the Light, Rehoboth, DE
2022
Painted Stave Distilling, Solace in Nature, Smyrna, DE
Salero, Tunnel Vision, Rehoboth, DE
Mezzanine Gallery, Inner Reflections, Wilmington, DE
Delaware State University Arts Center Gallery, Inner Reflections, Dover, DE
Good Aesthetic Gallery Good Aesthetic Fest, Dover, DE
Camp Rehoboth Award Winners XXII, Rehoboth, DE
Biggs Museum of American Art, Award Winners XXII, Exhibition in Dover, DE
Chris White Gallery Let Me Tell You Exhibition in Wilmington, DE
Camp Rehoboth's Fest 2022 Exhibition in Rehoboth, DE
"Great Woman in History", Woman in the Humanities Open House, in New Castle, DE
2020
Mattawoman Creek Art Center Gallery, Annual Juried Show, in Marbury, MD
Michael Rose's 31 Under 30 National Virtual Exhibition
2017-2019
Delaware State University Gallery Student Honors Exhibition in Delaware
Practice Gallery Exhibition, The Birds and the Bees, in Philadelphia
Artwork featured at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C.
AWARDS
2022: Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Winner
2020: Featured in Top Magazine Webzine
2020: Featured in Collision Literary Magazine Issue
2019: Featured artist in National Arts Program website
2017: Winner of Caesar Rodney District Calendar Contest in Delaware
2017: Congressional Art Award Winner in Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Delaware
2016-17: Delaware state winner for the Doodle4Google national competition
2013: Winner of Munroe Regional Medical Center holiday card contest in Florida