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Reception: Saturday, February 19 from 7-10
pm (Artist will be in attendance)
Laura Mosquera’s work is grounded in contemporary human experiences and reflections of everyday life exploring the representation of reality and the perception of what is real and its construction using non-linear narrative. They are cinematic depictions of seemingly inconsequential moments describing everyday narratives. While there is no linear narrative there is enough information to suggest a mood open to the interpretation of the viewer. The drawings and paintings are constructed with the use of snapshots. The figures are never posed, but rather captured in a moment, unaware of being documented. The work acts as movie stills, shots of a moment in time. Within the paintings the distance between the color as photographed (as it really was) and the color as painted creates the interpretive space for the viewer. Each piece in Beauty in the Breakdown evokes a nostalgic referential interior world. True nostalgia is nostalgia for the present; the melancholic awareness that the present is always what is in the process of coming apart, of ceasing to exist. In general, the story is one of a sense of loss, of something missing, an intangible. Through each piece there is the idea of longing and searching for this intangible. Laura Mosquera (b. Panama City 1966, lives Chicago) received her M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. She has presented solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum (CASA) in Salamanca Spain, Feigen Gallery New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, moniquemeloche gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, and Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery. A permanent installation of paintings has been installed at the Archer Heights Branch Library commissioned through City of Chicago Percent for Art Program, and 8 billboards of her paintings continue to be exhibited at the Red Line Subway station at Chicago Ave. and State Street sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the CTA's Adopt a Station Project. One of Mosquera’s paintings will be represented on a billboard in Chicago as part of the Converse artist/billboard project Her work is in the collections of both the Museum of Contemporary Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and the Contemporary Art Museum (CASA) in Salamanca Spain. |
Beauty
in the Breakdown, the debut Los Angeles solo exhibition by
Chicago-based artist Laura Mosquera, opens at sixspace this February.
Combining figurative elements (mainly people) and the abstract atmosphere
that serves as their background plane, Mosquera will exhibit a new
series of acrylic paintings and ink-and-ink drawings