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| Anna Valdez | Coking with Bacon | Oil on Canvas |
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| Anna Valdez | Laptop with Landscape | Oil on Canvas |
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| Anna Valdez | Plants and Drawings | Oil on Canvas |
I recently stumbled across the work of
Anna Valdez, a visual artist with a background of anthropology and video who paints still life arrangements composed of various household objects. Houseplants, books, quilts, clothes and drawings are some of the reoccurring motifs that appear in her paintings and are enable her to 'understand the domestic sphere as emblematic of both personal and collective experience'.
Valdez's playful contemporary still life paintings really resonate with me because of her use of bold colours and cleaver juxtaposition of organic plant life and man made objects. Incorporating bright textiles into her paintings it provides a lovely textural backdrop for her twenty-first century arrangements. I really admire Anna Valdez's work and she has become a huge source of inspiration in my practice.
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