Cela Luz

Born in 1986 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Lives in Brooklyn, New York.

In my work, I evoke the unconscious, mixed with observations from everyday life through paintings and site-specific animations. Humor, music, frustrations mixed with pleasure, sarcasm, the innocent eye of a kid combined with an adult perception, are what I find interesting in life, and consequently what I bring to my work. I paint everything that comes through my mind in a loose process, making images that are both figurative and abstract. I deal with metaphors in much of my work.

In my painting, I use oil paint, charcoal, oil pastel, dry pastel and palette knife. The color palette is very intuitive and somehow is influenced by Brazilian modernist painters. I see my paintings as moving images, not steady landscapes or portraits. Formally, when they are not single figures floating, like single thoughts navigating in our minds, they most of the time reference collage, with fragments of different moments.

2015 - 2017 | MFA Fine Arts - School of Visual Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim, Rio de Janeiro
2013 Copy and Place it, Zbra Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 Ego Serie, Comuna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Orange you glad we didn't say bonanza? | curated by Lauren Elise | at Arthelix Gallery, May 12th, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Transfiguration | curated by Carl Auge | at Flatiron Gallery, NY | ON VIEW UNTIL JUNE 12th
2017 Cognitive Dissidence | curated by Dan Cameron | at Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn, NY | ON VIEW UNTIL MAY 27th
2017 SVA MFA Fine Arts Open Studios, April 27th, NY
2016 SVA MFA Fine Arts Open Studios, December, NY, US
2016 Artificial Frills | curated by Suzanne Stroebe | at The Cloying Parlor | November NY
2016 Making the future | curated by Julie Torres and Michael David, at David and Schwitzer Contemporary Gallery, NY, US
2016 My Sweet Bushwick Open Studios, October NY, USA
2016 Sva Open Studios, April, NY, USA
2015 Sva Open Studios, December, NY, USA
2014 O Caos Corpóreo, curated by Clara Mellac, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2013 Copy and Place it, Casa das Caldeiras, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2013 L...