Isabelle Viallaneix

Pop culture symbols, signs and objects and fresh, vibrant color bring wonderful life to the canvases of French painter Isabelle Viallaneix. Strict, exacting lines erupt in sumptuous explosions of splash-like abstracted forms, as if to remind us of our sometimes tenuous relationship with the structures of contemporary life. In her work, Viallaneix seeks to explore the themes and issues that we encounter in our daily lives, and how these ideas are imbued in street and popular art forms. Through expressively reworking these signs and symbols, including telephones and their smartphone iterations, the artist unfolds the mystery of our attraction to certain forms and functions. Richly worked textures bring an intriguing poeticism to these familiar tropes, working to unveil our true feelings and relationships with apparently banal devices.

Like many masterful French painters before her, Niki de Saint Phalle chief among them, Isabelle Viallaneix breathes sparkling vivaciousness into the world around her. A self-taught artist, she worked in design in Paris before moving to Dubai and pursuing painting.