Marcela Lobo Crenier

Marcela Lobo Crenier (born September 12, 1959), is a Mexican artist from Mexico City whose work is distinguished by the depiction of everyday objects in strong, bright colors, often using color schemes associated with Mexico. She began her career in 1986 in Cancun doing etching, but she moved to Mexico City in 1991 and changed her focus to painting. Most of her work is acrylics on canvas, but she is also noted for painting ceramics with Uriarte Talavera. Her work includes additional mediums such as painted wood, self-made ceramics, collages, and shoe decoration. She has been exhibited both individually and collectively in Mexico, Europe, and the United States.

Life Marcela Lobo Crenier was born on September 12, 1959 in Mexico City. Her father is an architect and her mother is a chef of French heritage. Lobo began making art at a young age and remembers her childhood filled with cut paper, glue, scissors, and making objects of bright colors. She considers her talent to be a family inheritance, sharing her artistic interests with her sister Adriana who is also a painter. She views this as a similarity that bonds them rather than creating a rivalry.

Lobo studied art and design at the Universidad Motolina in Mexico City. She later took classes in photography and figure drawing at the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo de México and studied painting at Mercedes Escobar's workshop. She continues to attend workshops and courses in various mediums such as ceramics and collage. However, she attributes most of her experience to painting for eight hours every day and learning through trial and error.

Lobo has had numerous collective exhibitions and several individual ones that consist of collections of paintings, particularly acrylics on canvas but also including paintings on wood, collages, ceramic pieces, and decorated shoes.

Showings in Mexico include:

La Coleur du Mexique at the Mexican embassy in Paris (1997) A Côr do México at the Palace of Independence in Lisbon (1998) La Antigua art Gallery in Antigua Guatemala (2002) The Mexican consulate in Chicago (2011) The Defoor Center in Atlanta (2011) The Jadite Gallery in New York (2011).

She has also participated in several collective exhibitions.

Her European showings have almost entirely been in France, with shows sold out in Paris and Lisbon, but her work has been sold to others on that continent and can be found in collections in various countries. She believes her colorful work is popular in Europe because it has a warmth which can be missing in cold climates. Three catalogs of her work have been published, El color de lo cotidiano, from 2003 showing at the Dolores Olmedo Museum, Sitios, Espacio y Objetos in 2008 and Significaciones from her 2010 Toluca show. She does not make preliminary sketches before painting, with the only preliminary work being the tracing of lines on the canvas to assure balance in the composition.

Her work mostly focuses on painting still lifes and objects in general, as she states that she does not really like the human figure. One example of painting from memory and experience was that after a trip to the Lacondon Jungle, tropical vegetation appeared in her work.