Copley Library at the University of San Diego is pleased to unveil its most recent acquisition, “In Blue Time,” followed by a talk given by artist Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.

About the Artist:

Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio is a Mexican artist whose work includes oil painting, drawing, muralism and installation. Her current work focuses on the concept of time, disability, and the transitions of change through the perspectives of her individual narrative, astro-physics, philosophy and memory. She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art and her BA in Art History and Visual Arts at the University of San Diego. Ortiz-Rubio has exhibited her artwork internationally in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States, in such places as the Timken Museum of Art, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Oceanside Museum, Quint Gallery, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, and Bread&Salt Gallery among others. Her permanent public murals can be seen through out the city of San Diego and has work in the San Diego Civic Art Collection as well as the University of the Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City and now in the University of San Diego. Ortiz-Rubio partnered with the State of California for the Action Saves Lives campaign to create a mural to commemorate COVID victims and raise awareness. In addition, she was an Artist in Residence at the Timken Museum of Art, Chavon School of Design in the Dominican Republic, and at Bread&Salt Gallery in San Diego. She currently teaches drawing and painting at the University of San Diego.