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Exploring notions of childhood, innocence, trauma, religion, sexuality, and pleasure, to name a few, the works in this exhibition speak to the cacophony of feminine experience and the coming of age discovery that identity is not either or, but is a constant evolutionary experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWorking within the histories of narrative and figurative painting, Jackie Patino creates biographical worlds through which they explore their upbringing in a religious Mexican household and its effect on the formation of their identity. Rendered in bright, almost synthetic colors, Patino depicts cartoonish figures in settings of intimacy or quest - with a friend, with a lover, with family, or in a moment of discovery. The paintings recall specific memories or experiences as a way to process childhood, innocence, sensuality, and the traumas at the core of understanding oneself. Light plays an important role in the work, illuminating a scene, emanating from the figures’ heads like crowns, or in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSiete Dones de Jackie’s Inferno,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e 2023 highlighting the underbelly of figures in a whimsical depiction of hell. It functions as a formal tool in the work, but also a metaphorical clash, nodding to the juxtapositions and conflicts that exist in any person. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFinding power in embracing the complexity of feminine identity, Mila Zekic creates drawings, paintings, and textile work that depict women in colorful domestic, social, and introspective settings. Painted using bright, playful hues such as pinks, reds, and purples, Zekic’s figures are, by contrast, coy, brooding, mysterious, and sensual. In the series of mixed media works featured in this exhibition, Zekic depicts lone figures in moments of solace against technicolor backdrops, portraying an emotional tension that is deeply personal yet universal. This tension is heightened through her use of multiple layers of pattern, paint, and decorative elements such as glitter, that create a jumbled collage of the material, spiritual, and sensual journey of the creation of each work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInterested in the intersection of art and esotericism, Abbey LaCroix renders brightly colored symmetric abstractions that recall feminine forms, landscapes, and the balanced patterning of stained glass. Working in sections, LaCroix begins each work with a slightly garish underpainting, then carves each progressive layer through washes of cool colors. The final works provide the viewer with a calming, meditative composition of light, color, and form that seem to hold and transmit energy - the divine feminine. Heavily influenced by the Transcendental painters of the late 1930s, LaCroix creates environments that speak to a better place, but also reference the period and influences of their making. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"untitled-2","title":"Fecundity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbbey LaCroix, \u003c\/strong\u003e2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: 28 inches by 22 inches with 2 inch depth panel. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterials\u003c\/strong\u003e: Oil on Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFraming\u003c\/strong\u003e: These works are unframed and do not specifically need framing, as they're stretched with very clean edges. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping\u003c\/strong\u003e: $65\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePick-Up\u003c\/strong\u003e: Free\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll work will be on display until September 2nd and can be picked-up or shipped shortly there after. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e----------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInterested in the intersection of art and esotericism, Abbey LaCroix renders brightly colored symmetric abstractions that recall feminine forms, landscapes, and the balanced patterning of stained glass. 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