January 21 - 28, 2020
Celica Ledesma and Shelby Sult are senior-level undergraduate painting students at Texas State University who make highly photorealistic and brightly saturated oil paintings. Their figurative paintings take different routes in the examination of purpose: through either internal self-examination or relationships with others. Through the curation of both of their work, they aim to create a space that allows viewers to consider their own relationship with purpose or to immerse themselves in a space where the artists share theirs.
Exhibition statement:
Surfacing represents the search of purpose: drawing inner experiences forward to both a psychological and literal surface through painting. This exhibition explores the ways we have represented the figure in a metaphysical space, and relationships with others and oneself.
Using photorealism as an avenue to describe internal experiences, which resist description, our paintings elicit understanding or sympathy from their audiences. This interaction begins with a surface-level physical relationship and expands to a transcendental awareness. Our painted figures emerge from a metaphysical space – and draw the viewer back into it.
We hope to make our audiences aware of this multi-layered idea of “surfaces” through the exhibition, and to experience the space as a surface themselves. As paintings themselves turn into and communicate to one another, this is a space for self-examination and resonance.
Closing: January 27, 2020 | 5–7 pm
Texas State Galleries FLEX Space
233 West Sessom Drive
San Marcos, 78666 Texas
512-245-2647
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