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Artist Statement for Vanessa Aves
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It is important to choose the subjects I work on with great thought because they have to be interesting to me. After examining my body of artwork I found a wide variety of subjects, compositions and media. My favorite media to work in is oil pastel because of what it’s rich deep color adds to my artwork cannot be achieved with soft pastels or colored pencils.
“Fountain of the Seven Brides,” was inspired by a poem. In my interpretation the women were all bound and controlled yet there was something so free about them like fire. Fire can be contained but it can also burn free. “Laying Together” was my first experiment drawing the figure with oil pastels. I really enjoyed the looseness and the way it could blend. It may not be my most accomplished pastel piece but it is where I fell in love with oils. “Spotlighted” was the first figure drawing I did where I just let my imagination do whatever it wanted instead of exactly trying to render the form. It was the beginning of the end, so to speak, because my pieces after this all expressed my own creativity instead of me trying to render perfectly. Perfection is overrated. “Geisha” is by far my favorite recent work. Cultures around the world are another theme I explore. The western cultures change the realistic view of what is beautiful and have molded women in thinking we need to look a certain way. Eastern cultures do the same, but it is the complete other end of the spectrum. Where as we ideally want to be paper thin, large breasts and show lots of skin and have a nice tan. The eastern beauty is rounder, painted white and shows only her face and hands. “Geisha” was my reminder of showing that there are other forms of beauty.
I think of my artwork as an ever-changing process and I haven’t committed to one style yet. I love to experiment trying many different styles.
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