Statement 

This collection started with ruminations on the native surroundings of Tucson and similar environments in the southwest. I was inspired by the repetition of the towering saguaros and other forms paired with the subtle color shifts that passing time imbues on the landscape. The desert has a type of architecture that satisfies my inclination towards line, shape, and time, and it confirms my appreciation for vertical forms that syncopate and gather towards a horizon line. Buildings, rock formations, cacti. There is true beauty in anything that’s suspected as stagnant at first until you start to consider its shadow as a fully recognized part of its anatomy, at which point it becomes truly ethereal and kinetic, forever connected to light and purpose, and ultimately personified. 

Bio 

Arielle Zamora they/them (b.1990) is a Portland, Oregon-based painter and printmaker. Their painting practice features layers of paint and joint compound as an exploration of line and form. These mathematically-informed, hand-carved patterns contrast with softer elements like subtle color and chance imperfections in their ground to create unexpectedly tender ruminations on shape. They are intensely drawn to relationships between line and form, and they draw inspiration from architecture and its surroundings to help assign structure, repetition, and function to the two dimensional plane. Recently they have been paying more attention to how repetition and symmetry affect our feelings of belonging and safety within a world full of noise, loss, and uncertainty. 

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