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      Ornate Painted Patterns Conceal Photographer Cecilia Paredes Against Textile Backdrops

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      #paint
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      #self-portrait
      #textiles

      November 8, 2021
      Grace Ebert

      “Blue Flight” (2021). All images courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, shared with permission
      Peruvian artist Cecilia Paredes continues her ongoing series of camouflaged self-portraits with deceptive new works that leave only her hair, eyes, and ears untouched. Set against lavish backdrops printed with birds in shades of blue, floral motifs, and ornate flourishes, Paredes paints her skin and positions herself in a precise alignment with the chosen pattern, disappearing among the colorful landscapes. Each work, which the Lima-born artist refers to as “photo performances,” considers how individual identities are informed by natural environments and the broader cultural milieu. Explore an archive of Paredes’s lavish portraits at Ruiz-Healy Art and on Artsy.

      “The Unseen Glance” (2021)
      “Paradise Hands IV” (2020)
      “The Whisper” (2021)

      “Magnolia Stories” (2020)

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      #textiles

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      Colorful Raw Wool Is Twisted into Expressive Busts by Salman Khoshroo

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      September 27, 2021
      Grace Ebert

      All images © Salman Khoshroo, shared with permission
      Complementing his series of raw wool portraits, Iranian artist Salman Khoshroo shapes chunks of dyed fibers into expressive busts. The figurative sculptures capture an array of emotions and vary in abstraction, sometimes using aqua rovings for lips and eyelids and others remaining more faithful to a subject’s features. Whether an intimate self-portrait or mischievous character outfitted with jackal teeth, the pieces are evidence of Khoshroo’s perceptive, nuanced practice. “Constructing the face with transparent layers of thinned wool creates depth, much like glazing in painting,” he writes about his process. “I make self-portraits regularly about one every year. This one is the first sculpture and has a unique presence. (It) reminds me of my own mortality.”
      Khoshroo recently moved from Tehran to London to study at Goldsmith’s University, and you can follow his work, which includes impasto portraits and other fiber-based sculptures, on Instagram.

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