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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2007 New Gallery G 3, Grand
Opening, Houston, Texas
2006 Metamorphic Torsos, The
Jung Center, Houston, Texas
2003 Art Crawl, Gallery 3,
Houston, Texas
2003 Back 2 Back, Gallery 3,
Houston, Texas
2003 Imagologies,Crostinis,
Houston, Texas
2000 Back Bone, Machorro
Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 Becky R. ...
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Artist Galleries:
Gallery G-3, Houston, TX
www.gallery3.com
Mind Puddles Gallery Houston,
TX 713-529-6463,
www.mindpuddles.com
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Artist Reviews:
"Becky's works" Bruce
Leutwyler: Philosopher, Art
Critic living in Houston
"The Art of Becky" Stephen
Adams: Freelance Art critic
and Visual Artist living in
Oregon
"Intensity of Personality"
Aldo Cardozo: Writer and Art
Critic living in Bolivia
Becky Soria, Ronald Martinez:
Writter and Art Critic
Becky Soria,Diario
Presencia...
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Collections:
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo
Patino, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Office of Jose & Karin Prada,
Architect, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Office of Julio Rivas Casas
M.D., Cochabamba, Bolivia
Giancarla Quiroga, Fiction
Writer, Cochabamba, Bolivia
J.E. & Cynthia
Aranibar,Cochambamba, Bolivia
MTech Co, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
Ibiza Restaurant, Houston, TX,
USA
Crostinis Restaurant, Houston,
TX, ...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Becky Soria
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"Subject matter in painting is merely the trigger that allows the expression of something more profound, unconscious and possibly hidden even from oneself, and therefore all inclusive, so viscerally immanent to humankind" ( R. Alonzo)
Becky Soria, American, born in South America, studied with South American artists and continued studies at the Glassell School of Art in Houston, Texas. Her background in Biology and Medical Sciences influenced the subject matter of her paintings. Her paintings tend to be impressionistic, but abstracted images. Geometric and organic forms deliberately and accidentally coexist, where layers of paint and other materials shape and reshape the image allowing hidden intentions and meanings to appear. Many of her paintings express subconscious memories of that state in which we all cross from the inorganic into the sphere of the living. Many paintings will have, at first glance, a level of abstraction, but, on further consideration, one can perceive surreal allusions and nuances combined with conceptual references; these images often suggest growth, change and mutation. She seeks to depict these ideas, not as objective realities, but rather as subjective responses to her reality tunnels. Her interest has taken her to explore her impressions of current world events, and women issues.
November 2003 Solo exhibit, new paintings, under the title "Back to Back" presented at Gallery 3, showed some of my introspective analysis of the world at war, and its opposite, an esoteric world at peace.
In the show: a series of paintings depicting abstract backs of women, mysterious, with hidden heads and emphasis on their spines. Along with these paintings, I have added excerpts from poems done by my father who was a physician and a poet in South America. I feel these fragments of his poems find their own space between each painting in the collection. I did not intend these poems to be self-referential or have any specific reference to my works. Rather, I see them as an impact from his spirit to mine.
Metaphoric Torsos Exhibition Statement, January 2007, Solo Exhibition The Jung Center, Houston, Texas
From a Jungian perspective 3-12-2006
On the torso aspect of the images.
The back of the body is always the promise of a front, but in my work it is a front that never arrives. The mind approaches the world with its preconceptions, - can it see the back without somewhere unconsciously presuming the front --- no --- so what front is presumed?
Is there a person represented by a back such as this, is it somebody's back?
Is it Woman rejecting being taken as a sexual object?
The back is a symbol of rejection, of turning one's back on the viewer, of looking away, but it also represents looking in the same direction as the viewer, looking at the same thing, in the distance.
The back for beasts of burden carries the material weight of the world, but for humans, the back carries the weight of the worry, the stress, the pressure, the fear, the grief, and its physiogomy tells the tale (tail) of the person's life.
And the back can symbolize the shadow as Jung observed,
Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it.
The Integration of the Personality. (1939).
On the the abstract aspect of the images
Burying into the inchoate place where images manifest, and pure light plays against color and form, I paint my abstract images. But these abstract images many times are on the border of meaning, at the place which allows projection of content from the shadow. As Jung observes,
Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face.
Aion (1955). CW 14: P.17
And,
Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
"The Philosophical Tree" (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335
On the collage aspect of some of the images
A collage is a beautiful medium to allow the play of ideas as images to play against each other, to conflict, to balance, to unify, and to fracture. It is the post-modern condition to be a dynamic and unstable equilibrium of ideas about the self and the world, where the "real world", if there is such a thing, is lost beneath the cascade of conflicting images purporting to represent it. And did not Jung point us towards this as well,
The individual ego could be conceived as the commander of a small army in the struggle with his environments war not infrequently on two fronts, before him the struggle for existence, in the rear the struggle against his own rebellious instinctual nature. Even to those of us who are not pessimists our existence feels more like a struggle than anything else. The state of peace is a desideratum, and when a man has found peace with himself and the world it is indeed a noteworthy event.
"Analytical Psychology and Weltanschauung" (1928) In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P.693
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