Ethereal Artist | Desiree Ruiz V

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ABOUT DESIREE

Desiree Ruiz Velázquez is an artist, poet, and fashion designer, born in Puerto Rico in 1996, now located in Orlando, Florida. Following her college graduation with a BFA in Fashion Design, Desiree wrote, illustrated, and published the poetry book "El Hechizo de la Amapola", with only 18 years.

She then immersed in the fashion and art industries, exhibiting her works at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orlando International Airport, and art galleries in Central Florida along with her women’s evening wear fashion collections walking down the runway during Orlando International Fashion Week.

Her passion towards the arts led her to enter the art gallery industry, initially specializing in fine art consulting while working at galleries in Central Florida, which later led her to pursue her full-time career as an artist, specializing in the oil study of precious stones and ethereal female portraits.

ABOUT HER WORK

Desiree's work seeks to shape what has always fascinated her; the hidden. Her curiosity and indulgence into divination and spiritual ascension practices, —such as Tarot readings, shadow work, higher consciousness, and crystal healing—, led her to study the esoteric principles and beliefs through her oil and digital paintings.

Symbolism plays a huge role in most of her works, often connected to meanings and representations found in Tarot, crystals, existence and its many unresolved mysteries such as the afterlife, cosmic beings, and the spiritual realm.

Her work is fueled by the fear yet fascination towards the unknown.

She explores the beauty and mysticism of quartz as the most magical and alluring object created by earth along with the figurative presence of women as the most divine figure ever seen. Ruiz plays with themes of existentialism as she draws inspiration from the ideologies and principles of esotericism and the occult sciences, which seek to discover and understand hidden knowledge and existential mysteries.

Desiree is an independent, self-taught artist that embarked her full-time journey after exhibiting at the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orlando International Airport, and at art galleries in Central Florida.

In 2021, she single-handedly hosted, organized, and curated her first solo exhibition, "UNCERTAINTY REALMS, The Art of the Unknown", where she exhibited over 42 original oil works of art.

Besides an artist, Desiree is also the Founder and Fashion Designer of the emerging womenswear fashion brand, Desiree & Denise, which launched their first global collection with SHEIN in Summer 2022