Curatorial Rational
The theme of my body of work mainly focuses on identity and what's been happening to our community, including a cultural lens. Being able to relate my theme to my life and being stuck in a pandemic has brought my work into an exploring intention; as well as putting myself in a different lens. Concepts I've strived to explore within my work are topics that are challenging and diplomatic, such as being trapped and health. Utilizing materials such as oil paints and a camera to create a photo and painting pieces has been a great coping skill for my health, all of my artworks are associated with good and bad experiences. Preceding experiences have inspired me as a person but also in my art such as creating more feeling and culture. Applying these experiences to the theme of identity and culture to the real world has attached my body of work into a voice as an artist.
Some particular issues that happened through the process of creating my artwork were not knowing how to use certain supplies, creating something I’ve never done before, or only using certain supplies to make my project more challenging. The main ideas that have been explored through the issues I was having was how can I make my project look better than it looks on paper; with some projects like my hybrid hero project I was struggling with the dimensions, and materials so that's when I decided to do experimentation which did not turn out that well but than when I did the main one it turned out a lot better. Techniques I have used for all projects were trying out different materials, using different inspirations, and trying to do something different but also where I have experience.
My personal favorite medium, painting, is a medium I use quite often not only in the professional art life but also in my personal life. As painting being the medium I use often and besides the fact that it's my favorite medium, I'm able to get a general idea across to a viewer or an audience better than doing any artwork I dislike. However, since my favorite medium to create is paintings I’ve been able to experiment with different elements like texture, blending, colors and value. Painting was the first thing that had gotten me into art. In my opinion, painting is in most mediums like the supplies or just the general idea, and that's why I enjoy doing paintings because I could experiment with a lot more than an illustration board could offer.
The space that was provided for my exhibition included two white walls. My coordination within that space began as a vision of emotion and identity; I prefer to work with organization. I have my artwork spaced and placed in certain spots; the idea to get across to the viewers that are seeing my exhibition was to create a global context within my artworks being presented.
The way I plan to organize my exhibition is by emotion to identity. I also plan on displaying my works like reality, unexpected, trapped, and pandemic. Peace and conflict of the piece brings out the main purpose of the central themes within all of my works. In my exhibition, I have smaller pieces but they capture the lines and movement which makes the piece stand out. This brings me to my last but latest piece “It Can Be” which sums up the type of person of who I am which will make my exhibition feel more complete.
As I create art and illustration as an impressionistic, this has always been exposed throughout my artwork event throughout the pieces I have chosen for my exhibition. The mediums I choose to work with are limited and hardly varied, I don't consider my artwork to be constraint in my work. The themes from my work are very noticeable and have a similar connection to the environment, with art being in my life as long as I can remember and using art to express my feelings multiple themes and ideas are being expressed by the way I feel or see things.
The theme of my body of work mainly focuses on identity and what's been happening to our community, including a cultural lens. Being able to relate my theme to my life and being stuck in a pandemic has brought my work into an exploring intention; as well as putting myself in a different lens. Concepts I've strived to explore within my work are topics that are challenging and diplomatic, such as being trapped and health. Utilizing materials such as oil paints and a camera to create a photo and painting pieces has been a great coping skill for my health, all of my artworks are associated with good and bad experiences. Preceding experiences have inspired me as a person but also in my art such as creating more feeling and culture. Applying these experiences to the theme of identity and culture to the real world has attached my body of work into a voice as an artist.
Some particular issues that happened through the process of creating my artwork were not knowing how to use certain supplies, creating something I’ve never done before, or only using certain supplies to make my project more challenging. The main ideas that have been explored through the issues I was having was how can I make my project look better than it looks on paper; with some projects like my hybrid hero project I was struggling with the dimensions, and materials so that's when I decided to do experimentation which did not turn out that well but than when I did the main one it turned out a lot better. Techniques I have used for all projects were trying out different materials, using different inspirations, and trying to do something different but also where I have experience.
My personal favorite medium, painting, is a medium I use quite often not only in the professional art life but also in my personal life. As painting being the medium I use often and besides the fact that it's my favorite medium, I'm able to get a general idea across to a viewer or an audience better than doing any artwork I dislike. However, since my favorite medium to create is paintings I’ve been able to experiment with different elements like texture, blending, colors and value. Painting was the first thing that had gotten me into art. In my opinion, painting is in most mediums like the supplies or just the general idea, and that's why I enjoy doing paintings because I could experiment with a lot more than an illustration board could offer.
The space that was provided for my exhibition included two white walls. My coordination within that space began as a vision of emotion and identity; I prefer to work with organization. I have my artwork spaced and placed in certain spots; the idea to get across to the viewers that are seeing my exhibition was to create a global context within my artworks being presented.
The way I plan to organize my exhibition is by emotion to identity. I also plan on displaying my works like reality, unexpected, trapped, and pandemic. Peace and conflict of the piece brings out the main purpose of the central themes within all of my works. In my exhibition, I have smaller pieces but they capture the lines and movement which makes the piece stand out. This brings me to my last but latest piece “It Can Be” which sums up the type of person of who I am which will make my exhibition feel more complete.
As I create art and illustration as an impressionistic, this has always been exposed throughout my artwork event throughout the pieces I have chosen for my exhibition. The mediums I choose to work with are limited and hardly varied, I don't consider my artwork to be constraint in my work. The themes from my work are very noticeable and have a similar connection to the environment, with art being in my life as long as I can remember and using art to express my feelings multiple themes and ideas are being expressed by the way I feel or see things.