Catalina Viejo Lopez de Roda
Hudson, New York
Spanish figurative visual artist working and living in New York
MessageCatalina Viejo Lopez de Roda was born in Malaga, but raised in the Canary Islands, Spain. Viejo currently lives and works in Hudson, New York. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, NY (2014) and a BFA from Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2005). Recent solo exhibitions include; The Light Collectors, HallSpace Gallery, Boston, MA (2019/2020) and Letters to Wild Women, Hudson Library, Hudson, NY (2019). Recent group exhibitions include; Shaved Ice, ProtoGomez, New York, NY: A.I.R Gallery 13th Biennial, Lets try listening again, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2019): Tell Us Plainly What You Mean, Aquarius Gallery, Queens, NY (2019) and Woman Shall Inherit the Earth at the Panacea Museum, Bedford, U.K (2018).
Her work has been covered by publications including; Art Maze Magazine U.K, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Artscope Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Brooklyn Paper and Vanity Fair Italia. In 2015 she participated in the exhibition Wide Open 6 in BWAC, Brooklyn, NY in which she was awarded Best in Show Gold by Rujeko Hockley, curator of the Whitney Biennial 2019. In 2018 Viejo was awarded full Fellowships by the Jentel Arts Residency Program in WY and the Saltonstall Artist Residency Program in NY.
Statement
Currently working on the theme of Self Care.
In my paintings I examine voyeuristic impulses and the ambiguities present in self-perception and human relationships. I continuously create visual illusions and challenge the perceptions of the viewer. The two-dimensional surface breaks into the three-dimensional world: sculptural hands squeeze the breasts of a figure, spilling ribbons out of her nipples past the painting’s surface; a woman lays on a patch of grass reading, only to reveal upon closer inspection a sculpted pelvis with a small little bird nestled between the folds of her vulva; shooting stars squirt out of breasts but also push forward in space through their physicality. These visual illusions aim to distort the viewers perception of space, reality and their sensory experience.
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