Laura Rubio                                                     

Mexico City, September 28, 1960
Living in Guadalajara, Jal. since 1995

1996 - 98 Drawing and painting / Elena Moneny
1998 - 01 Human figure / Davis Birks
1998 - 99 Painting / Patricia Jarero 
1999      Painting techniques / Enrique Rico
2001      Plastic Arts/ Centro Cultural Casa
          Colomos, Guadalajara, Jal. (3 years) 
2003      Healing Art workshop / Cuernavaca, Morelos


__COVER PICTURE--BRONZE STATUE BY LAURA RUBIO (AZUL)

Laura Rubio is an artist with extreme vision who works and lives in 
Guadalajara Mexico, where she has been painting for several years working 
mostly with oils on canvas. She has great promise of becoming one of 
Mexico's foremost and most sought after artists. This, her very first work 
in bronze is a magnificent piece of symbolism which she calls "Prisoner of 
your Fears", but which I prefer to call "Back to the Womb".

It is not only unique in itself, but a true exhibition of this artist's 
talent. Only one was made and it is owned and cherished by this author.

In it I see a man somewhat in the fetal position holding his heart outside 
his chest. There is both hope, and yet an anguish there in his face as he 
attempts to protect and guard it in his return to the uterus on the one 
hand, (with his thoughts of his previous known tormenting experiences), 
while at the same time exposing it to the world in order to start anew and 
love again. He knows however that all the while his fate lies in the hands 
of some greater being and he sees how very small and insignificant and very 
weak he really is in this universe and that he must accept the inevitable 
while leaving loose of his many ambivalent feelings. He is cradled in the 
two hands of a woman who is ready to let him fall back into the reality of 
life in this world. The interpretation of this (as of any work of art) is of 
course an individual one.