Susana Noriega
Susana Noriega Rivero (born 1952) is a contemporary Mexican painter, personal and avant-garde in style, inscribed in the abstract expressionist and surrealist movements, and linked in her middle age with outsider art. Often, outsider art expresses extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds. Biography. Born in Mexico City, as a teenager Noriega Rivero took part in various contests, and in 1971 her artistic interests led her to attend the workshops of great masters, such as Raúl Anguiano, Rodolfo Nieto, Luis Velasco, Guillermo Zapfe, and Pascual Santillán. Although at the same time she studied advertising and  psychology, she recognized herself as a painter, and she devoted most of her time to pursuing this activity. Techniques and style. She has made incursions into many techniques: engraving and wood carving; paper engraving; graphic projects for sculpture, as well as painting with charcoal, pigments with oil or water, resins, marble powder, sand and soil, all of them on canvas, wood, clay, stone and paper. She has specialized in handling graphite and charcoal on paper, as well as mixed techniques with pigments and water or oil, ground marble, sands and resins on canvas. She continuously renews herself, having developed a  personal avant-garde style with some influence from abstract expressionism and surrealism. Outsider art is conventionally considered as one of the trends of informalism, but in this painter it is fused with neo-figurative art, an expressionist revival in modern form of figurative art. The term "neo-figurative" emerged in the 1960s in Mexico and Spain to represent a new form of figurative art. The greatest exponent of outsider art, the French Jean Dubuffet, influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's book "Artistry of the Mentally Ill", coined the term "art brut", which may be approximately translated as "art in the rough , to refer to the art made by non-professionals, who do not follow aesthetic rules, such as social misfits, children, mentally troubled people, prisoners, etc. Dubuffet gathered a collection of this kind of paintings, which includes works by the Swiss Aloïse Corbaz, the Spanish Alfredo Pirucha and the Swiss Adolf Wölfli. Dubuffet aspired to create an art free from intellectual worries, in which elementary, childish and often cruel figures prevail. Features. Some traits of Noriega's work in line with outsider art are: Exhibitions. Her first single exhibition, in the Alliance Française at San Ángel in Mexico City, was inaugurated 	Susana Noriega
4709830	on Friday, April 27, 1979. The Mexico City paper Novedades" reviewed: She went on to exhibit, either individually or collectively, in the following venues and galleries: From the 1960s she has contributed with her paintings to different media, such as magazines "Plural" (currently "Vuelta)" and "Sí para Jóvenes", and newspapers "El Sol de Querétaro" and "El Sol de Toluca". She has also illustrated short-story and poetry collections. Painting collections. Virginia Aspe Armella, Norma Barquet, Enrique Beraha, Alfonso and Ernesto Bolio, Ezequiel Castro, Ana Laura Constante, Paloma De Lille, Rubén Durand, Cecilia and María Luisa Elío, Francisco Franco Ibargüengoitia, Carlos  Fuentes, Jomí García Ascot, Raúl Gasca, Alicia Ibáñez Parkman, Luis Legarreta, Alberto Lifshitz, Carmen Madero, Pablo Marentes, Martha Maza, Maricela Mir, Héctor Muciño, Pedro Ojeda, Octavio Paz, Erwin Preston, Mario Quiñones, Agustín and Nieves Rivero Blásquez, Héctor Rivero Borrell, Ricardo Secín, Carlos Serrano, Estela Shapiro, Malke Tapuach, Ángela Treviño, Carmen Ubaldini, Luis Velasco.