S H O P
En Route
Existing
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Up close and personal
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touch
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Sunflower
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NALIAHT
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Artist Statement
My work questions individuality as I find what shapes a person to be who they are and how the public perceives the individual. I mainly focus on myself, but as I attempt to grasp my personal individuality, I am also questioning the collective shared experience. Most likely, it is nearly impossible to pinpoint one’s true identity because even we don’t fully understand or know our true selves and the reasons behind our existence. As I contemplate these questions, I realize that there are no real answers, which had left me with more questions than I had initially. The work I’ve done in the course of these past few months are the depiction of my absolute confusion and paralyzing confoundedness about what my identity holds. As an immigrant from the Philippines, she is incredibly influenced by adaptation and the changes that occur when assimilating to a culture foreign to her own upbringing. Displacement and disorientation are two prominent themes in her paintings as she attempts to pinpoint her place in society. Her work deals with issues of identity and representation. As she was forming her education in Los Angeles City College, her body of work was more carefully made and calculated, while their subject matter dealt with the monotony of daily life, and the impact of social and digital media on identity. As she develops her more recent work, Abelarde’s paintings echo the visceral impact of the abstract expressionist movement as she is drawn to their physicality and raw emotion. Combining the techniques and skills she has accumulated throughout the years, she sees a balance between chaos and structure. |