David Bowie Icon Painting

MOD - Marcela Olivia Dorantes an emerging artist that works between London, UK and Washington, DC. Dorantes has been painting since early childhood. MOD's first memories of art stemmed from her grandmother an artist - theater, opera, and art. MOD examines the interactions of wildlife, domestic animals and humans to express the experience of expansiveness, intimacy, domesticity and remoteness through her keen sense of space, shape, color and form. Birds, bears, dogs, and felines represent unfettered spiritual creatures symbolizing the transcendence of prosaic life Prosaic life where technology has been rendered a witness of every moment of our lives. Using the versatility of color in her art is her exclamation of gratitude to the world and synergy of life. MOD's art you linger on, art that you study, enjoy then come back for more. Marcela Olivia Dorantes examines the interactions of wildlife, domestic animals and humans to express the experience of expansiveness, intimacy, domesticity and remoteness through her keen sense of space, shape, color and form. Birds, bears, dogs, and felines represent unfettered spiritual creatures symbolizing the transcendence of prosaic life. Using the versitility of color in her art is her exclamation of gratitude to the world and synergy of life. A flourishing magical realism permeates Dorantes's work, in the red orb of a sun hung low and pendulous in the sky, in the rose-tinted landscape, or the glow of the moonlight and the closeness of living creatures. There is little distinction between the inner and outer, the natural and man-made (flora and fauna wander freely across still lifes and through interior scenes) – Dorantes's world is a tropical Eden where the human, the organic and the spiritual coexist without discord. Tara R. (Foundry Gallery) Marcela Olivia Dorantes paintings skillfully transmute the animal world into the symbolic world, reminding us of our bonds with the larger world and with all the other creatures in it. M.G. Her paintings are whimsical, playful and the intensity of her painting is enchanting. Sally Akridge