Angelica Gomez is a Colombian artist based in Bogota, Colombia. Her works on abstraction use oil painting as an instrument to reveal forms and layers that emerge from a deep-rooted physicality.  

Angelica's interest in art began at the age of 5 when she would frequent her uncle’s estate. There she would make shapes out of the clay by the stream and realized there were ways to form meaning from nature. At the age of 12, she was sent to a catholic boarding school where she began taking her first formal art classes. Nuns taught her drawing and oil techniques by recreating prominent art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

In 1979, she completed a semester at the Universidad Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, Colombia, where she began formalizing her fine arts career. The following semester she was given the opportunity to move to Boston and continue her studies at The Art Institute of Boston, now Leslie University, where she graduated with a fine arts degree.

Drawing, influenced by her classical training, was always predominant in her art; however, during her time in Boston she found her passion for abstract art. Angelica believes that abstract art emerges from a deep-rooted physicality. She sees oil paint as the perfect instrument to achieve abstraction. She enjoys its plasticity, which she can strip layer by layer to allow the composition to reveal itself.