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Arielle Zamora鈥檚 work uses layers of paint and joint compound as an exploration of line and form. Her paintings in Held Tight are made with a unique and intricate process resulting in discrete geometric compositions. Each painting begins with layers of tinted joint compound on a panel. Once dry, the compound is sanded and carved using etching or dental tools. She fills the lines with a thin wash of oil paint and uses a razor blade to scrape the surface and reveals the filled line. Alternately, she applies washes of oil paint onto the substrate and carves into the joint compound, unearthing the tinted ground beneath it.

Zamora is intensely drawn to relationships between line and form, specifically from architecture and its surroundings to help assign structure, repetition and function to the two dimensional plane. Her latest series of paintings for Held Tight were made during the forming and traveling of the Russian convoy en route to Kyiv, Ukraine, preceding the current Russian invasion. News broadcasts of satellite imagery involving Russian military convoys and tanks carving new formations into the Ukrainian countryside have become visual specters for Zamora. Mapping out her own formations as retaliation to the Russian war machine which seeks to intimidate and ruin, her compositions entreat tranquility and harmony.