Paolo Mejia Fine Arts and Design cordially invites everyone to “Remnants,”
an upcoming solo art show at our Oakland Annex facility in Jack London
Square. Featured works by San Francisco-based artist Rea Lynn de Guzman,
whose work explores psychological and socio-political themes
surrounding liminal identity, cultural assimilation, and the Filipino/a
diaspora, tempered by her experience as a Filipina immigrant living in
the United States.
In this series of work, de Guzman references the iconography of “Maria Clara” (a mestiza character from Jose Rizal’s novel “Noli me Tangere”
and metonym for a traditional dress woven from piña fiber and organza).
Influenced by Spanish colonization, “Maria Clara” embodies Philippine
ideals of female beauty equated with light skin, accompanied by
stereotypes of chastity and demureness. Through the process of
repetitive layering and a palette evoking skin tones, de Guzman utilizes
the tactility of specific materials such as image transfers on
synthetic organza to extract and repudiate these imposed ideals and
stereotypes—material remnants intertwined with cultural legacies. Her
work exemplifies complexity and historicity of the Filipino Culture.
Come pass by our annex facility in Jack London Square area and see our guest artist for the the months of May through July.
art show: MAY 17 – JULY 25
location:
Jack London Square Realty (Annex)
311 Oak St., Suite 116
(between 3rd and Madison)
Oakland, Ca 94607
311 Oak St., Suite 116
(between 3rd and Madison)
Oakland, Ca 94607
