Painting

February 19, 2025

Firelei Báez Brings Explosive Explorations on Race, Gender, and Nationality to Vancouver Art Gallery

At the heart of artist Firelei Báez‘s work is a never-ending sense of energy and life, almost like a pulse, beating through the themes the painter passionately expresses and the history many long to forget. In her work, the artist subverts the docile, effeminate qualities that bright colors, botanical designs, and even the female figure itself have been assigned, turning them into challenging motifs to take space and tell stories about gender, race, and colonialism.

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February 10, 2025

Expressive Paintings Visualize the Struggles of Moving Through Darkness

One of our favorite multidisciplinary artists, Hera, is back with a beautifully executed exhibition at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Hera, one half of the acclaimed street art duo Herakut, has painted a new collection featuring her surreal, wide-eyed portraits. All My Friends Know Darkness, which is a shared solo show with Hapa painter and muralist Lauren YS, is a look at what it takes to struggle through difficult times.

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January 31, 2025

Mixed-Media Paintings Inspired by 19th-Century Rome on Display in Historic Library

For her latest exhibition, Italian artist Alice Pasquini took inspiration from the vast late 19th- and 20th-century photographs of Count Giuseppe Primoli. Merging the past and present, she has reimagined these snapshots in contemporary masterpieces for a show at Rome's Fondazione Primoli. Vestige is a beautiful homage to the past and the preservation of its memories. The bulk of the show is centered on portraits of women, drawn from Primoli's collection of photographs.

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January 26, 2025

Vibrant Paintings Reimagine Greek Goddesses Into Complex Symbols of Empowerment and Resilience

With its wealth of iconography, gods, and stories, Greek mythology has captivated artists for millennia. Kristel Bechara is one such artist, and her Heart of Chroma series reimagines Greek myths through a uniquely contemporary lens. Spanning fifteen paintings, the Heart of Chroma series primarily explores Greek goddesses, ranging from Persephone, Athena, and Artemis, among others.

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