articles/Beatriz Milhazes There is nothing simple about what Im doing — theartnewspaper.com

The painter Beatriz Milhazes. Photo: Vicente de Paulo Beatriz Milhazes commands some of the highest prices of any living Brazilian artist. In 2012, Meu Limão, 2000, went for $2m at Sotheby’s New York, and this May, Palmolive, 2004, sold for $1.68m at Christie’s New York. It is perhaps surprising, then, that “Jardim Botânico”, which opened at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in September, is the carioca artist’s first solo show in a US museum during her 30-year career. Imbued with a complex, colourful geometry, Milhazes’s vividly layered paintings are made using a technique she refers to as “monotransfer”, in which she paints forms onto thin, transparent sheets of plastic and then applies them to the canvas using glue. In her studio—one in a row of three, soon-to-be-four houses—in the verdant Rio neighbourhood of Jardim Botânico, Milhazes told us about abstract art, prices and the problems of working with green.

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