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Karla Caprali
 
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Brazilian painter Karla Caprali lets images rather than words convey her personal experiences. She takes a conceptual approach to her memories, perception, lust, and ideas about the human condition, exploiting the tension between darkness and light, color and line. Inspired by life and death, dreams and fear, religion and paganism, motherhood and daily routine, she achieves a startlingly contemporary, feminine vision of daily life and her past.
The sophistication of her intensely colored, thought-provoking, and moving paintings arises from an innate appreciation of duality. “There is no joy that tastes as sweet without the bitterness of sorrow,” she says, “and no passion that burns eternal without the cold steel hands of reality pulling it back to earth.” Her paintings may reflect symbolically a deep ambivalence about the joys and compromises that womanhood demands or encapsulate moments of empowerment. “Art for me is like a child lost in the wilderness, a ghost of life grasping for some roots to cling to
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"Self Portrait"
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"Probation"
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Zhang Ge
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"Boddha"
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"Butterfly"
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Kenji Inoue
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Creating volatile tableaus that straddle the line between surrealism and abstraction, Kenji Inoue's visual dynamos are a potpourri of forms, styles, themes and moods that appear to shriek from the depths of our collective subconscious. These artistic detonations defy thematic categorization, as Kenji explodes expectations as well as icons (sometimes literally), in order to yield his distinctive visions. Eruptive bursts of energy serve as Kenji's visual theme, turning even the most benign of nature's processes into its own Big Bang. Alternate personas, rips in consciousness and archetypal mental processes are often manifest as mutating serpentine entities, engaging in titanic alterations or stratospheric battles. Kenji's work is not all fantasy, however, as his choice of using the form of the explosive burst has its organic parallel in natural processes here on earth, from crystals to flowers to tree limbs.
This dialogue about explosions and destruction, as well as psychological and aesthetic transformation, contributes to the visceral complexity one feels experiencing Kenji Inoue's otherworldly paintings.
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"Tokyo Johnny Guitar"
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"Oriental Kiss"
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Levi Parsley
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"Theater of the Campground"
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"The Various Endorsement"
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