Jamian Juliano-Villani’s surreal, unsettling narratives are rendered in acrylics, implementing both brush and airbrush techniques. Found in these scenes are icons of popular culture and Western living, presented in ways that invoke examination, chuckles, and every so often, a bit of recoiling.
“[Her] practice is composed by large-scale figurative canvases where ambiguous and unsettling elements create a harmonious yet unnerving narrative, populated by extroversions of appropriated images and anxious introversions of traces of personal moments,” a statement says. “These images seemingly disregard time, place, reality and taste. The New York based artist draws her varied and colourful iconography from popular culture and imagery, encompassing television, collectibles, and magazines, creating gaudy juxtaposition and uncanny situations.”
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Cuban artist Alan Manuel Gonzalez once found it inconceivable to be showing his art outside of Cuba. He has described his paintings as the result of the inescapable circumstance of being created there. Today, censorship in Cuba is the most intense in the western hemisphere. Gonzalez relies on the use of metaphor and surrealism to express both his love for his country and disdain for its problems.
Christian Vincent’s paintings carry whimsy and melancholy, the artist playing with light and perspective in scenes from the everyday. Surrealism is typical in Vincent’s work, yet at varying degrees. The overall essence plays into the function of memory and how we fill in details with the perspectives of both then and now.
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