Abundance of Riches Luis Montoya & Leslie Ortiz

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This exhibition is a retrospective of West Palm Beach artists Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz celebrating their partnership creating monumental and small outdoor sculptures. 

Montoya/Ortiz’s still-life bronze monumental sculptures make you look again with wonder at everyday objects. Since 1994 Luis Montoya and Leslie Ortiz have been working together in a creative partnership. Together they create large paintings and bronze sculptures, which most often focus on food. They have made a specialty of fabricating such re-scaled still life sculptures out of bronze, polychroming them into surprisingly likely facsimiles.

Their work is sensual, full of humor and surreal. They control the entire process, beginning with the design, through the casting process and finishing each piece with unique patinas.​

Their works can be found in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain, the Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid, the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington, Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art in Racine, Wisconsin and other fine venues.

They have created special commissions for both local venues, like the Palm Beach International Airport and international venues, including the Tokyo/Fuji Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

Image credit:  Two tomatoes on a table I, 8′ x5.8′ x 3′