Prada Gallery is the newest space for Contemporary
and local artists in Washington, D.C.
NEW WORKS
New Works - a solo exhibition of recent work by Spaniard artist Carmen Jabaloyes opens at Prada Gallery on March 31, 2007. The exhibit will run through May 5th, 2007.
Carmen Jabaloyes, born in 1971 in Valencia, Spain, has primarily exhibited her work in Boston, Massachusetts. Jabaloyes is best known for her paintings of fanciful European, American and Middle Eastern metropolises. She offers unusual and exciting perspectives of these curious cities, often depicting them at rooftop-level. Her whimsical cityscapes are crowded with playfully crooked and colorful structures, but are strangely devoid of human figures. Instead, the buildings take on lives of their own, their animated, dancing forms defying the solid and static nature of architecture. The structures become organic; plump houses spring up in bushels and towering apartment buildings extend clothesline branches. Jabaloyes envisions cities as living, moving entities, and portrays them with surprising warmth.
In her most recent work, Jabaloyes moves away from the bustle of the city into the stillness of the countryside, replacing towering skyscrapers and winding streets with flowering trees and rolling hills. But rather than simply shifting from cityscapes to landscapes, in these paintings Jabaloyes delves into her own style of portraiture; she successfully portrays the personality of each tree she depicts. Some knotty trunks twist into the sky before bursting with delicate, vibrant leaves, while others bend forlornly towards the earth while shedding pale petals. In the fantastical worlds Jabaloyes creates in her paintings, all things, whether natural or manmade, are imbued with personality and spirit.
Prada Gallery is open from Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 am - 6:00pm , and Mondays by appointment only. It is located in the heart of Georgetown in Washington DC, at 1030 Wisconsin Ave., NW .