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Gabriel Rojas
Inherited Abstraction
Painting is the arena where process connects with ritual and memory. Drawing from languages of Western modernist painting and Andean textile design, I explore how the manipulation of painting, textiles, and traditional techniques can create tensions to reveal ideas about ancestral inheritance and transference, familial upbringing and psychological contradiction. Through investigating legacies of making, I invent studio rituals using formal painting moves and quotidian references to arrive at a place of familial intimacy. Alongside painting, different materials like rope, textiles and wooden constructions engage this process in which each physical act prompts new ways of revealing and reveling in the in-between stages of memory. My work is open to a fluid process of revision, re-order and re-use. This is a way to expand from established languages and modes of making, to overcome its boundaries and reveal its new potential.
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The Studio
Collaged acrylic on fabric, oil on raw canvas, graphite on paper, studio objects
110 x 86 in.
2022
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Metabolism
Spray foam, wood, plaster, rope, yarn, fabric, oil paint
30 x 40 in.
2023
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![Geometric abstract painting hanging on hooks by rope](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_GabrielRojas_03.jpg?itok=GpuQBRsQ)
Untitled
Wood, oil, acrylic, fabric, rope, yarn
2023
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![knotted, tied rope sculpture with hanging threads](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_GabrielRojas_04.jpg?itok=16HoRmSR)
Recalcitrant Knots
Found basket, yarn, rope, textiles, canvas
25 x 50 in.
2023
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Picante de Pollo
Collaged paintings, oil on canvas
96 x 105 in.
2023
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The Cut
Oil, canvas, wood, rope, steel
40 x 70 in.
2023
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![geometric abstract grid constructed from painting frames.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_GabrielRojas_07.jpg?itok=aiHj0p0z)
Untitled (Rumi Maki)
Wood, oil, canvas, fabric, rope, yarn, found objects
84 x 66 in.
2022
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![Geometric abstract painting with painted border](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_GabrielRojas_08.jpg?itok=oal2PX7G)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
2022
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Mama Little Skin (Separation Anxiety)
Oil on canvas
2023