Maria Paz Contreras Buzeta

María Paz Contreras Buzeta (Chile, 1981) studied art at The Art Students League of New York with Knox Martin, Kikuo Saito and Peter Bonner. Her art has been shown globally in galleries and museums in NY, China, Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Europe. Her work is part of several public and private collections, as The Today Art Museum of Beijing, China, The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, Valentin Hoffman, Mariana Romano and many others. She directed the documentary "Radical Perception" about the life and work of the American painter Knox Martin and lately she released her new music album of poems and abstract music "Needed Zound" with Mexican Producer Ricardo Rugeiro. Inspired in part by The Kybalion and its major themes that certain truths are not limited by time, nations or religion- her pictorical work investigates the concept of peace (spelled PAZ in Spanish), and explores the ancient philosophical similarities between Western and eastern cultures, particularly China and the Americas. When transcribed together, in cultural juxtaposition, the number 7 appears as an inverted reflection of the Other, serving as a metaphor for the notion that opposites create balance. There is no Other, but in fact another half. Both sevens, when combined, create a separate form resembling the shape of Zhong 🀄. By blending and developing a unique version of historical, literal, and creative analysis, she retitled this shape "The Alchemy of Peace". Lately she has been creating many other symbols that connect the West, The East, the North and the Sound.