2021 Commencement Exhibition

Isabel Pardo

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Volcano exploding in mountain scape, smaller inset rectangle of woman's lower half in bathtub, both are surrounded by intertwined snakes. + Enlarge
Isabel Pardo
Thinking of those in Pompeii Stuck in The Bath — La Realisation Du Monde 2020 Watercolor on paper 22” x 30”
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Long panel painting of a neon pink forest with four carnival horsemen in the bottom third, an inset square with the neighborhood watch eye is centered in the top third. + Enlarge
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Have You Seen The Horsemen Yet? 2020 Oil and rhinestone on canvas 15” x 45”
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A unicorn surrounded by flames and glittery stars over a bottom magenta layer of a woman entwined with a snake. + Enlarge
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The Burning Bush Was Also A Trash Fire 2020 Oil and glitter on canvas 36” x 54”
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A golden setting sun shines over the ruins of the columns of a Roman plaza as the moon phases cycle overhead. The lower third is a magenta toned side of a Roman sarcophagus. + Enlarge
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At What Point Does This Become a Nightmare? — Marriage of Sunset and Shadow 2020 Water media and leaf on paper 22" x 30"
Pink woman standing in a pool of water holds a snake while looking into a mirror held by a disembodied hand. A glittering blue skeleton mirrors her position in a teal behind as other disembodied hands float holding a dagger, a cup, amongst other objects. + Enlarge
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Have You Thought About Your [Existential Crisis] Today? — The Breaking of the Seventh Seal 2020 Oil and rhinestone on canvas 62” x 44”
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In each corner a horse emerges from a sunburst overlapping a black arch framing a sky of red stars above a red tree dripping silver centered in a mountain scape. Above the tree a rectangular frame displays the moon through a canyon in the shape of an eye. + Enlarge
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As I Wept Tears of Both Sadness and Joy I Saw Flames of Silver Glittering Before Me 2021 Water media and leaf on paper 22" x 30"
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Triptych of angels crying rhinestone tears surrounded by lime green glitter flames, central red angel is crowned with a crown of 12 rhinestone stars. + Enlarge
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These Are The Angels and Here's What They Have To Say...You Break It You Buy It 2021 Oil, rhinestone, and glitter on canvas 54" x 72"
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Detail of triptych of angels crying rhinestone tears surrounded by lime green glitter flames, central red angel is crowned with a crown of 12 rhinestone stars. + Enlarge
Isabel Pardo
These Are The Angels and Here's What They Have To Say...You Break It You Buy It (Detail 1) 2021 Oil, rhinestone, and glitter on canvas 54" x 72"
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Detail of triptych of angels crying rhinestone tears surrounded by lime green glitter flames, central red angel is crowned with a crown of 12 rhinestone stars. + Enlarge
Isabel Pardo
These Are The Angels and Here's What They Have To Say...You Break It You Buy It (Detail 2) 2021 Oil, rhinestone, and glitter on canvas 54" x 72"
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Statement

“The bad news is that it's the end of the world as we know it. The good news is that it's the end of the world as we know it. We can use our imaginations to dream up a better world.”

-- David Talbot, Author and Journalist.

This series addresses the symbols and ideas of the apocalypse in a present act of transformation. It exists in the moment when the ethereal meets the earthly, the magical meets the mundane, the macrocosm meets the microcosm, when the veil lifts and the hidden meets the visible and the mental breakdown is a spiritual revelation.

When thinking about the apocalypse, flames, war, plague, other destructive forces come to mind. Literary and film depictions show a world in a chaos of sharply contrasted duality of good and evil, life and death. However, when digging deeper into the subject, the very word apocalypse seems to have a different meaning entirely to the doom we compare it with. It comes from the greek apokalypsis, meaning an “unveiling” or “revelation.” With this, the idea of the apocalypse became synonymous with the end of suffering. In Ancient Greece, the belief in the world’s unveiling was rooted in the word for hope, elpis—anticipation or expectation of a good, safe future, but also fear of the unknown.

In this work I address my own acceptance of terror. Through framing devices within the paintings and externally as installations, I present moments where the spiritual and the material meet or overlap, ready to be revealed. In a time period which feels like a prolonged apocalypse, I draw upon the many mythologies which treat the end of the world as a birth of a new one.

View the full body of work on https://haveyouseenthehorsemenyet.cargo.site/

Painting (BFA) Students
Abbie Rugg
Alex Lecce
Alexa Barboza Joseph
Catherine Camargo
Eli Ruhala
Flynn Walkinshaw
Freyja Golbach
Irish Carpo
Isabel Pardo
Jill Tebay
Jun Hee Huh
Katherine Sepulveda
Lucy Doyle
Marisa Evangelista
Marisol Ruiz
Matthew Napoli
Nina Vitale
Omar Harris
Qingxin Meng - not exhibiting
Sara Bahat
Sarah Heerey
Shirley Ng - not exhibiting
Sophia Wilson - not exhibiting
Vicky Shao - not exhibiting
Zhenrui Yang - not exhibiting

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