Born in Baja California Sur, Mexico, Rubi Villa showed her characteristic curiosity and passion for the visual arts at a very young age. She has over the years explored and developed different techniques and themes, always returning to the aesthetic lines and poetic intimations of the the female form and spirit.
Rubi has exhibited in her native country throughout her career, and was actively involved in local creative collectives even as a young artist. She has in recent years exhibited in France and the United States.
She now resides in Florida, and her new surroundings mark a new period in her work. As she explores psychedelic, mixed media, and pop art, she continues to share her singular artistic vision, a reflection of her inner and outer being.
With the natural grace of a dancer, Rubi Villa draws sensual self-portraits in which she captures the delight of movement and the rhythmic sway of the body. In this sense, her work is an open invitation to enjoy corporeality; to enjoy its unique forms, its expressive postures and its mere human gestures. Likewise, her own modeling traces a voluptuous connection to the myriad forms and figures she embodies. The latent sensuality in her traces and brushstrokes is manifested in beautiful mermaids who have a deep sensitivity throughout their skin and radiate it in the form of universal feminine beauty, in beautiful women with animal skulls instead of heads, or in attractive intergalactic witches.
It should be noted that the nudity that she details in her pieces is also masculine and, like its counterpart, is by all counts cosmic and orgasmic, mythic and magical. Ancient personages such as the mysterious Lilith, interesting hermaphroditic beings, millenary divinities and some seductive nymphs bear witness to this. She represents them in striking relief with zoomorphic attributes, mischievous features, captivating looks and wild personalities. As such, the wonderful erotic charge in her paintings takes us into a space of freedom and sexual creation at its best. With various techniques, the artist explores literally from head to toe the pleasure of portraying each part of the human anatomy. It goes without saying that her quite expressionist style is undeniably figurative with surreal themes. And, of course, that emotion is essential in her artistic proposal.
On the other hand, her fascinating lyrical abstractions trap us and submerge us in the sea; in its tones, in its flows, in its textures, in its humidity, as well as in its undulating movements and incessant sinuosities. Rubi paints the majestic and imposing dance of oceanic nature with its eternal music, its soft and thunderous singing, and its rhythmic waves in blue and white. However, the essence of the sea water that she imprints on her canvases is the same that runs through her canvases of naked and eroticized bodies at will. Therefore, her Art narrates different visions of a singular eroticism; that rises and falls, that is spontaneous and free, that opens and penetrates, and that aspires and perspires both in the depths of the ocean and in the open pores of the flesh.