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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 40 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in
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This painting is an representation of the influence that claustrophobic, beautiful, yet also somewhat vapid decorative adornments may have over our perception of ourselves. I'm interested in how our preoccupation with certain patterns and decorative elements in the clothing we wear and the environments we create represents a form of escapism and fantasy. The symbols we are drawn to are a reflection of our desires, and speak to a narrative we aspire to follow and partake in. They represent both where we come from and where we wish to go. The floral forms in this painting are both decorations and parasitic growths upon the figure. They serve as symbols wielded by the figure in her clothing as a display of beauty, but fall upon and grow out of her as if exerting a reciprocal influence of their own.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:40 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in
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www.gabrielzeaart.com Born in Singapore, and raised in Houston, TX, I’m a Colombian-American creating oil paintings preoccupied with the aesthetics of conventional expressions of gender, and how these conventions are both limiting and freeing all at once. Growing up middle-class in Texas, the specter of being judged as not masculine, or coming across as not in total command of one’s own emotions, was constant. The concept of ‘ideal masculinity’ vs. ‘ideal femininity’ was an ever-present, ever-shifting topic in my mind, as it seemed to endlessly influence the behavior of myself and others. The contradictory and impossible nature of these ideal concepts of gender don’t seem to affect our devotion to them, and my paintings similarly represent a devotion to and suspicion of the very gendered forms of expression that surrounded me as I grew. My goal is to envision a seductive world where these corrupted idealizations of gendered behavior can be observed and an association with violence or self-destruction is either explicit or never too far away.
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