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▪︎June roses.

Date: 1898

Artist: Margaret MacDonald-Mackintosh (1864-1933)

David Jien’s Recent Futuristic Visions

Drawings by David Jien

Hilda Palafox (Mexico, 1982). Her work includes painting, drawing, ceramics, and textiles.

"Hidden in her strokes, the mystery of the feminine is balanced with the symbolism of the physical, emotional, and spiritual state; she explores the body as matter with the ability to mold itself. Her use of the figurative focuses on the female figure as a tool of expression." https://www.proyectosmonclova.com/artists/hilda-palafox

“A woman’s braid, for me, has a very powerful meaning,” says Hilda Palafox. “It symbolizes the fact of connecting, building, recognizing, changing, and strengthening. And I consider the act of braiding as something very intimate, very personal, and universal at the same time.”

https://www.juxtapoz.com/.../hilda-palafox-the-open-vessel/

Hilda Palafox’s “Un día a la vez.”

On view beginning October 16th, 2021 at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Hilda Palafox’s solo exhibition, “Un día a la vez.”

The female body inspires Hilda Palafox’s work as the central element. Her images present a fresh look at the traditional representation of the female body in Western art. The shapes, colors, and textures seem to embody Latin American women, radiant colors, robust silhouettes, dark skin, and monumental bodies whose edges intermingle with the spaces containing them. Her work is inspired by the mystery of the feminine, in the meaning of its physical, emotional, and spiritual state. An exploration of the visible body as shapeless matter willing to mold itself. Her images investigate the autonomy of the figure, the independence of composition, and freedom of color.

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