黑料不打烊

The Galer铆a Javier L贸pez & Fer Franc茅s opens its exhibition season with the first solo show in Spain by the Californian artist Allison Schulnik. In Nest, this Los Angeles-based artist presents a selection of recent works in one of her most personal projects to date. Through a dozen paintings in a variety of formats, works on paper, ceramics and her first edition of sculpture cast in bronze, Schulnik takes a journey to her family鈥檚 roots, without leaving behind the figures who have peopled her unique creative universe during the last decade, including unicorns, female centaurs, felines鈥攂oth wildcats and lynxes鈥攁nd the flowers of her symbolically charged still lifes. These apparently ordinary motifs contain a subversive reading of themes such as death, sex, vulnerability, anxiety, freedom, identity and solitude.

Schulnik鈥檚 paintings are characterized by being loaded with material, formed from thick layers of oil which give a visceral sensuality and, at the same time, a fragility poised, with sinister familiarity, between the tragic and the grotesque. Among her influences, cinema stands out鈥攚ith the inspiration of the fantasy worlds of classic animation鈥攁s do the performing arts of dance and theatre. The figures of her personal mythology are drawn from her imagination, but have autobiographical sources too, particularly from the marginalized and the misfits, so that she ennobles the mundane in both her portraits and her still lifes, as well as the landscapes that suggest allegories of fear and sadness.