Gaby Collins-Fernandez & Carlos Rosales-Silva: Applied Pressure: San Antonio

May 18 - September 10, 2022

  • Gaby Collins-Fernandez & Carlos Rosales-Silva: Applied Pressure

  • Applied Pressure is a two-person solo exhibition featuring artists Gaby Collins-Fernandez and Carlos Rosales-Silva. The artists intersect in their experimental uses of color and texture to create abstract works that manipulate images. Collins-Fernandez presents a series of paintings and works on paper using materials such as crayon, digital photo collage, and fabric. Rosales-Silva’s works are grounded in a practice of painting but often borrow from sculptural and installation practices through materials like sand, crushed stone, and glass beads.

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  • 'The imagery in the painting is an old photograph of my grandmother and my mother...I was really interested in this...
    Gaby Collins-Fernandez
    Good Girls, 2021
    Oil and acrylic paint and photocollage on printed terrycloth
    42 x 34 in
    106.7 x 86.4 cm
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    "The imagery in the painting is an old photograph of my grandmother and my mother...I was really interested in this intimate connection between women where the way that they’re represented is actually quite different in terms of the consciousness around the gaze and the camera and a kind of performance."

     

    - Gaby Collins-Fernandez

  • In Lady Painter the artist reenacts Titian’s mythological painting Flaying of Marsyas to confront ideas of justice, authority, and public...
    Gaby Collins-Fernandez
    Lady Painter, 2021
    Oil and acrylic paint and photocollage on printed terrycloth and
    chiffon
    42 x 34 in
    106.7 x 86.4 cm
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    In Lady Painter the artist reenacts Titian’s mythological painting Flaying of Marsyas to confront ideas of justice, authority, and public punishment. The artist states, “The question of pressure and touch becomes important. Such as how the difference between a finger and a knife is sharpnessand material, while a stab and caress is a question of measurement and intent.”

     

    - Gaby Collins-Fernandez

  • On her use of layering and stacking elements Collins-Fernandez says, “As a strategy, it allows me to equalize categories: color,...
    Gaby Collins-Fernandez
    A Bouquet Is Not A Garden, 2021
    Oil and acrylic paint and photocollage on printed terrycloth
    42 x 34 in
    106.7 x 86.4 cm
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    On her use of layering and stacking elements Collins-Fernandez says, “As a strategy, it allows me to equalize categories: color, surface, text, gesture, materials - all function as a kind of language within the work.” In Collins-Fernandez’s practice the digital and the corporeal mingle together creating surprising readings.

  • 'I used an image from Madonna del Parto by Piero Della Francesca which features a pregnant Mary Magdalen. The whole...
    Gaby Collins-Fernandez
    Bad Witch, 2021
    Oil and acrylic paint and photocollage on printed terrycloth and
    chiffon
    42 x 34 in
    106.7 x 86.4 cm
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    "I used an image from Madonna del Parto by Piero Della Francesca which features a pregnant Mary Magdalen. The whole image stages an opening by touch. The background is opened by two angels and Mary Magdalene fingers these robes which feels like a surrogate for a labia...That idea of the body as image and material and its connection to pregnancy and representation of women is interesting to me. In "Bad Witch" there is a hand in the foreground which comes from the Madonna del Parto."

     

    - Gaby Collins-Fernandez

  • 'Biblioteca' was a part of a series of paintings that I started here in San Antonio during my residency at...
    Carlos Rosales-Silva
    Biblioteca no.3, 2022
    Sand and crushed stone in acrylic paint on panel
    40 x 34 in
    101.6 x 86.4 cm
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    "Biblioteca" was a part of a series of paintings that I started here in San Antonio during my residency at Artpace. I had been traveling back and forth to the San Antonio Public Library, which is right up the street from Artpace and became really enamored with the building and with the work of Ricardo Legoretta. I eventually convinced the library, with some help from Artpace, to let me paint on the balconies of the library which up until then had been closed to the public. I started a series of paintings that were at the time direct studies and have since turned into memory based studies of my time there.

     

    - Carlos Rosales-Silva


  • 'I made Peep Hole which was really untethered to any sort of reference. I went to the Whitney and saw...
    Carlos Rosales-Silva
    Cobija, 2022
    Sand and crushed stone in acrylic paint on panel
    40 x 34 in
    101.6 x 86.4 cm
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    "I made Peep Hole which was really untethered to any sort of reference. I went to the Whitney and saw this really gorgeous quilt in their craft show that had almost the exact same colors as the painting I had just made...So I decided to try and make a bigger version of Peep Hole, inspired by this quilt. When it was all said and done I had this reference from the quilt but completely changed the shape of it. Instead of being one big quilt shape, it looked like a blanket that you would see growing up in Texas or on the border, those big heavy fleece blankets. They always have some wild design on them, so that's what I thought of."

     

    - Carlos Rosales-Silva

  • 'New York City attracts some of the best artists in the world, and many young and emerging artists select New...
    Carlos Rosales-Silva
    Abanico, 2022
    Sand, crushed stone, and glass bead in acrylic paint on panel
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.6 cm
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    "New York City attracts some of the best artists in the world, and many young and emerging artists select New York City to test their abilities in the highly talented creative industry. Rosales-Silva did not put himself to that test. He chose to live in New York for family reasons and his art success was only a part of the decision...Rosales-Silva demonstrated tenacity and determination as he was forced to relocate twelve times in his first ten years in New York City."

     

    - Dr. Ricardo Romo​​​​​​​​, "Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Abstract Imagery Captures Latino Culture"

  • “I often travel to the sites where I learned how to see relationships of color, shape, and space. Most often...
    Carlos Rosales-Silva
    Peep Hole, 2022
    Sand, crushed stone, and glass bead in acrylic paint on panel
    20 x 16 in
    50.8 x 40.6 cm
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    “I often travel to the sites where I learned how to see relationships of color, shape, and space. Most often these travels take me to the American Southwest and Mexico where I grew up. I believe the architecture, landscapes, and vernacular cultures of these places are not only beautiful, but unique because they reveal the complex visual histories of colonization that are severely under-recognized in Western Art History.”

     

    - Carlos Rosales-Silva

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