When Felipe Ortiz was studying at MassArt, his professor, Jamaican painter Kofi Kayiga, used to tell him, 'The journey of an artist takes a lifetime.' For Ortiz, a transplant from the city of Cali, Colombia, it’s a lived truth.
was studying at MassArt, his professor, Jamaican painter Kofi Kayiga, used to tell him,"The journey of an artist takes a lifetime." For Ortiz, a transplant from the city of Cali, Colombia, it’s a lived truth, as it took nearly 30 years before the art caught up with the artist.
Patrons are greeted upon entry with a giant mural by artist Filipe Ortiz inspired by the song by Modern Lovers. When Ortiz left Cali for the first time with his parents at the age of 14, he left behind an older half-brother and half-sister. Despite the distance, he and his brother Juan Pablo remained close, so when Juan Pablo came to America in 2008, Ortiz said it helped awaken him to his early life in Colombia. Juan Pablo’s visit would also change Ortiz’s art.“He basically said, ‘Is this the best you can do?’,” Ortiz recalls Juan asking when he first saw his work.
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