Cristina de Miguel “Nike Head”
Cuchifritos
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“I look for the freedom that allows my painting to be everything. In a world where painting is too theorized I want to bring the anti-theory of its freedom.
I explore this desire of liberty approaching each work in a different way, knowing that paintings have the right to be what the painter wants them to be. In this sense I am motivated to search for a space of purity outside social constraints.”
–Cristina de Miguel
The freedom de Miguel grants herself in the studio is refreshing in the wake of the systemic geometric abstraction, softened geometry, and limited color palettes that have been dominating popular painting trends in New York for the past few years. Her paintings are unapologetically giant-sized, with rich striking primaries, visible finger trails, and subtly layered meaning. Figurative elements are always present, but often seem to serve more as vehicles for painterly abstraction than for specific narrative.
Complicated and simple, ecstatic and meditative; this work is emphatically ambiguous, and exactly what it is.
Cristina de Miguel (b. 1987, Seville, Spain) is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She recently returned from a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and received her MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2012.
More of Cristina’s work can be seen at Freight + Volume in The Decline and Fall of the Art World, Part II: The other 99% opening September 12, 2013.
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Schedule
from September 07, 2013 to October 06, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-09-08 from 16:00 to 18:00