New Work by Giovanni Valderas, 2013

Art League Houston is pleased to present New Work, an exhibition of new-mixed media paintings by Dallas based artist Giovanni Valderas. The work combines a variety of materials including paper, acrylic paint, wood, drawing and screen print to create complex three dimension paintings that hang awkwardly on the wall and explore themes of decaying traditional structures.

“I deconstruct the frayed elements from a piñata into my paintings, as a way of transforming the Piñata’s original identity of gratuitous celebration into one of collapse and distress” says the artist. “The use of fringe and collaged abstraction is not meant as only embellishment. While it certainly provides a tactile texture pleasing to the touch, the fringe also permeates the structure of the painting as if they were bacterial spores creating a reproduction chain specifically suited for living in unfavorable conditions. The anatomical aspect of the piñata is also appropriated and amplified, creating a complex network suggesting the strength and the inner complexity of relationships.”