A Sunburst Restrained

Maria Berrio (born 1985) is a Colombian-born American artist known for the fantastical, poetic mixed-media works that combine painting with collage and make her one of the most distinctive artists of the contemporary Latin American diaspora. A Sunburst Restrained from 2019 depicts a fantastical scene in the poetic, colorful manner that distinguishes Berrio's best work from the more straightforward painting of her contemporaries. The 2019 date places this in Berrio's most productive period, when she was producing the fantastical mixed-media works that combine painting with collage, using rich colors and textures drawn from Latin American visual culture.

A Sunburst Restrained is important in the context of contemporary Latin American art because it demonstrates the fantastical, poetic manner that Berrio brings to mixed-media painting as one of the most distinctive artists of the Latin American diaspora. Berrio's fantastical mixed-media works—combining painting with collage in rich colors and textures drawn from Latin American visual culture—represent an important development in contemporary art that connects Latin American visual traditions with contemporary practice.

A Sunburst Restrained is Berrio's fantastical mixed-media: a poetic scene rendered in the colorful, textured manner of one of the most distinctive artists of the Latin American diaspora. The 2019 mixed-media work combines painting with collage, drawing on Latin American visual culture to create fantastical, poetic imagery.