 
For New York-raised, New Jersey-based artist and teacher lCUEVAS, art involves finding and creating havens for self-expression and personal development. Recurring themes in her surreal oil and pastel compositions include preceding feminist artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, contemplative moments, Edenic imagery and the story of Eve. lCUEVAS refuses to be confined by the label of “feminist art,” though; her subjects address fundamentally broader issues of morality, sexuality and identity.
Her paintings and pastels often straddle abstract and figurative realms, with favorite subjects like bodies, fruits and plants melting and blurring into sensual fields of color and texture. Here, amid decontextualized objects and forms, lCUEVAS maintains our focus on bodies and personal sanctuaries. Skin-toned shapes and shaded organic forms dominate most canvases, as if extreme close-ups of bodies might help to reveal their inner truths. In this sense, lCUEVAS’s art manages to be extremely personal – delving into intimate imagery and ideas – and unmistakably universal, exploring the boundaries between public and private identities.
The Persistence of Form
Reception:
Thursday, May 13, 2010 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates:
5/11/2010 - 6/1/2010
Invitation to
lCUEVAS's exhibition
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Homage to O'Keefe 4
Oil on Canvas
16" x 16"
Homage to O'Keefe 4
Oil on Canvas
16" x 16"
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Homage to O'Keeffe
Oil Pastel on Paper
Limited Edition of 1
16" x 16"
Homage to O'Keeffe
Oil Pastel on Paper
Limited Edition of 1
16" x 16"
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Homage to O'Keefe 2
Oil on Canvas
16" x 16"
Homage to O'Keefe 2
Oil on Canvas
16" x 16"
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Homage to O'Keefe 3
Oil on Canvas
16" x 16"
Homage to O'Keefe 3
Oil on Canvas
16" x 16"
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