Amalgamation Ball
Dani Iribe
The exhibition will show April 10-14, and a reception will be held April 13, 6:30–8:00 p.m.
The Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90045
Amalgamation Ball is a collection of paintings in which the themes and subject matter are embodied by intense color and collage of patterns. Iribe utilizes crowded spaces coupled with feverish palettes and iconography to reveal the bliss that hides in profound emotions. The coalescence of ideas and visuals indicate sentiments of uncertainty and what Iribe calls a fraudulent relief. She highlights the importance of this phantom relief by creating a space in which subtleties and the extremes coexist. The fraudulent relief comes from her own anthology of feelings being inescapable even in what appear to be moments of respite.
Iribe combines her interest of the history of European Baroque and French rococo maximalism to emphasize her own fascination of ornate detail and the aesthetics of excess. By combing themes such as class and race accompanied by a pastiche of colors and symbolism, Iribe creates a purgatory-like world where multiple ideas and feelings collide. Iribe does not create in hopes of reaching a conclusion or explore a linear narrative, rather these works are visual examples of Iribe’s own process of sitting in these metaphysical concepts to dissect profound emotions that gift her license.
