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projects.
about.
BIO:
Laura Pretto Vargas is a 32-year-old Italian-Brazilian visual artist based in Miami.
Rooted in a multicultural background and shaped by global experience, her practice explores the emotional and the unseen through abstraction. Laura studied Fashion Design at Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, later refining her skills as an apprentice at Atelier Lou Borghetti in Brazil. Although she began in fashion, it was painting that gave her the freedom to explore vulnerability, complexity, and human emotion on her own terms.
Her work is gestural, textured, and emotionally driven—layered compositions created primarily with acrylics, oils, and mixed media. She often incorporates materials like modeling paste, handmade paper, or natural elements to build depth and resonance. Each canvas becomes an evolving space of reflection, filled with expressive movement and intuitive mark-making.
Laura’s paintings are influenced by Abstract Expressionism, art history, and music, yet firmly rooted in personal emotion and contemporary sensibility. In a fast-moving world, her work invites stillness, ambiguity, and introspection—encouraging viewers to pause, feel, and connect.
Artist Statement:
I paint from the heart. My work isn’t about replicating what I see—it’s about translating what I feel. Each canvas becomes a personal space where memory, emotion, and energy unfold in color, texture, and movement.
I’m endlessly fascinated by the things we can’t always explain with words—the silent feelings, the emotional echoes, the shifts that live just beneath the surface. Painting allows me to express those inner narratives and create a space where others can do the same. I work with acrylics, oils, and mixed media, often layering materials to create textured, imperfect surfaces that feel as raw, vulnerable and alive as the emotions they carry.
My process is intuitive and deeply emotional. I don’t over-plan; I let the work unfold. Every brushstroke is a reflection of where I am—mentally, emotionally, spiritually. It’s a kind of self-exploration, and at the same time, a form of communication. A mirror.
I believe abstraction is one of the purest forms of connection. It doesn’t impose meaning. It invites you to bring your own. My goal is to create work that doesn’t just hang on a wall—it transforms the space, invites introspection, and evokes feeling.
Art, for me, is a forever statement. It grows with us. It asks us to slow down—to feel, to connect.
A quiet rhythm. A trace of memory.
A meeting point between souls—
where emotion becomes form,
and the personal becomes collective.
A place where feeling lingers, and the invisible becomes seen.
