Duo Exhibition: Incarnations
Fatima de Juan & Rachael Tarravechia
Dates: August 3 - September 14, 2024
Reception: August 3 | 6-9 PM
Glass Rice is proud to present Incarnations, a duo exhibition featuring paintings by two powerhouse female painters, Fatima de Juan and Rachael Tarravechia. In this exhibition, the characters portrayed in their paintings represent versions on themselves, metaphysical extensions of the multitudes that exist in each artist and women alike.
Fatima de Juan’s evocative work brings to the forefront the dualities that dwell within herself. The characters are strong in stature, formidable beings wielding weapons, yet decadently embellished in long claw-like nails, large jewelry, and unique hairstyles. They simultaneously emanate divine femininity and brawn. Lush colors and silken textures blend amongst one another seamlessly. Being highly inspired by Xena Warrior Princess as a young woman, De Juan gives life to her figures with influences from this character. She pairs this fascination with a futuristic imagined world where women are true forces to be reckoned with.
In one of De Juan’s paintings, a tiger in a state ready to pounce, becomes the central figure. These creatures known for their strength, courage, and vitality is a synonymous symbol to her female figures - a sacred being in her fantastical world.
Rachael Tarravechia, known for her kaleidoscopic paintings of home interiors, most notably of bathrooms from homes she discovers on Zillow, presents three paintings of characters in dream-like environments in Incarnations. Cartoon-like cats and an unformed being become the nucleus for each piece - subjects locked in endless spaces shrouded by webs, clouds and a limitless staircase peer out from the canvas and into our reality. Inspired by single-player video games such as Final Fantasy, Tarravechia creates a world of her own in which the lines between the player, the character, the game, and real life become blurred.
The shapeless figure in Brave in Space is representative of a character that hasn’t been unlocked in a game yet - barriers players must overcome. The traversing of obstacles and missions required for the protagonist to complete anthology games mimics the difficulties and trauma one must endure in real-life to reach milestones of growth and healing. Regaining a sense of self and femininity are recurring concepts in Tarravechia’s work.
Incarnations highlights the innate power and magic that exists in women. Through their respective worlds, Tarravechia and De Juan bring to the forefront the dualities that coexist for women and themselves to be seen truly as they are.
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Fátima de Juan (Palma de Mallorca, 1984) is an artist based in Mallorca and is represented by L21 Gallery. Her first contact with the world of painting was through graffiti as a teenager under the alias “Xena”. Years later she studied Illustration at the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma and Graphic Design in Madrid.
The woman is a constant in all her work; a strong woman, with large arms, exuberant features and claws, a reflection of an attitude that exudes femininity, sweetness and brute strength. Nature, the exotic, the primitive, the naive, the erotic, the tropical, fantasy and magic coexist in her personal universe through vivid colours and velvety textures that give her an almost real and naïve dimension at the same time. Ancestral elements such as fruits, pitchers, stones, swords… coexist with more “aesthetic”, street and futuristic elements that make up the artist’s dreamlike imaginary, full of contrasts and sweetly aggressive self-portraits.
Solo exhibitions include “Pretty Thug” L21 Palma, Palma de Mallorca (2022) and “Don’t disturb me, I’m blooming” at L21 Barcelona (2023). This year she will have solo shows at WOAW!, Hong Kong; Verduyn Gallery, Belgium; and Maison Ozmen, Paris. Group exhibitions include “Brillant New Faces” Allouche Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); “Stronger Than Language”, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris (2022); “Food Obsession”, Urvanity Projects and Gärna Art Gallery, Madrid (2022); “Portraits and monochromes”; “PED TALKS”, 42 Art Space, Hong Kong (2022); “Exodus”, K11 Musea and Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong (2022); “Eating Sugar? No, papa!”, L21, Palma de Mallorca (2021); “Oh baby!”, Breach, Miami (2021). In 2023 Fátima will participate in group shows at L21, Palma de Mallorca; JPS Gallery, Hong Kong; etc.
Rachael Tarravechia was born in 1995 in North Carolina. received a B.F.A. in painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia in the spring of 2018. She has exhibited her work internationally in the United States, Hong Kong, and France. Her work investigates the threshold of private versus public, and aim to capture fleeting, intimate moments. Moments where the room was just previously occupied, and now there are no people, no phones, no cameras, yet the aura of humanity still lingers. Tarravechia lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
She is currently represented by Ceysson & Bénétière.
Fatima de Juan & Rachael Tarravechia
Dates: August 3 - September 14, 2024
Reception: August 3 | 6-9 PM
Glass Rice is proud to present Incarnations, a duo exhibition featuring paintings by two powerhouse female painters, Fatima de Juan and Rachael Tarravechia. In this exhibition, the characters portrayed in their paintings represent versions on themselves, metaphysical extensions of the multitudes that exist in each artist and women alike.
Fatima de Juan’s evocative work brings to the forefront the dualities that dwell within herself. The characters are strong in stature, formidable beings wielding weapons, yet decadently embellished in long claw-like nails, large jewelry, and unique hairstyles. They simultaneously emanate divine femininity and brawn. Lush colors and silken textures blend amongst one another seamlessly. Being highly inspired by Xena Warrior Princess as a young woman, De Juan gives life to her figures with influences from this character. She pairs this fascination with a futuristic imagined world where women are true forces to be reckoned with.
In one of De Juan’s paintings, a tiger in a state ready to pounce, becomes the central figure. These creatures known for their strength, courage, and vitality is a synonymous symbol to her female figures - a sacred being in her fantastical world.
Rachael Tarravechia, known for her kaleidoscopic paintings of home interiors, most notably of bathrooms from homes she discovers on Zillow, presents three paintings of characters in dream-like environments in Incarnations. Cartoon-like cats and an unformed being become the nucleus for each piece - subjects locked in endless spaces shrouded by webs, clouds and a limitless staircase peer out from the canvas and into our reality. Inspired by single-player video games such as Final Fantasy, Tarravechia creates a world of her own in which the lines between the player, the character, the game, and real life become blurred.
The shapeless figure in Brave in Space is representative of a character that hasn’t been unlocked in a game yet - barriers players must overcome. The traversing of obstacles and missions required for the protagonist to complete anthology games mimics the difficulties and trauma one must endure in real-life to reach milestones of growth and healing. Regaining a sense of self and femininity are recurring concepts in Tarravechia’s work.
Incarnations highlights the innate power and magic that exists in women. Through their respective worlds, Tarravechia and De Juan bring to the forefront the dualities that coexist for women and themselves to be seen truly as they are.
________________________________________________________________________
Fátima de Juan (Palma de Mallorca, 1984) is an artist based in Mallorca and is represented by L21 Gallery. Her first contact with the world of painting was through graffiti as a teenager under the alias “Xena”. Years later she studied Illustration at the School of Arts and Crafts in Palma and Graphic Design in Madrid.
The woman is a constant in all her work; a strong woman, with large arms, exuberant features and claws, a reflection of an attitude that exudes femininity, sweetness and brute strength. Nature, the exotic, the primitive, the naive, the erotic, the tropical, fantasy and magic coexist in her personal universe through vivid colours and velvety textures that give her an almost real and naïve dimension at the same time. Ancestral elements such as fruits, pitchers, stones, swords… coexist with more “aesthetic”, street and futuristic elements that make up the artist’s dreamlike imaginary, full of contrasts and sweetly aggressive self-portraits.
Solo exhibitions include “Pretty Thug” L21 Palma, Palma de Mallorca (2022) and “Don’t disturb me, I’m blooming” at L21 Barcelona (2023). This year she will have solo shows at WOAW!, Hong Kong; Verduyn Gallery, Belgium; and Maison Ozmen, Paris. Group exhibitions include “Brillant New Faces” Allouche Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); “Stronger Than Language”, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris (2022); “Food Obsession”, Urvanity Projects and Gärna Art Gallery, Madrid (2022); “Portraits and monochromes”; “PED TALKS”, 42 Art Space, Hong Kong (2022); “Exodus”, K11 Musea and Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong (2022); “Eating Sugar? No, papa!”, L21, Palma de Mallorca (2021); “Oh baby!”, Breach, Miami (2021). In 2023 Fátima will participate in group shows at L21, Palma de Mallorca; JPS Gallery, Hong Kong; etc.
Rachael Tarravechia was born in 1995 in North Carolina. received a B.F.A. in painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia in the spring of 2018. She has exhibited her work internationally in the United States, Hong Kong, and France. Her work investigates the threshold of private versus public, and aim to capture fleeting, intimate moments. Moments where the room was just previously occupied, and now there are no people, no phones, no cameras, yet the aura of humanity still lingers. Tarravechia lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
She is currently represented by Ceysson & Bénétière.