“Circadian Visions:” Sean Terrell, Jenaro Goode, Yannina Taboada, and John Duro
January 12th – March 10th, 2024 Bringing light to the …
January 12th – March 10th, 2024
Bringing light to the darkness, these contemporary oil painters are depicting the dark harshness of reality and bringing awareness to their current experiences of human life in the 21st century. Narratives and symbols of home, and what that means for each artist, sharing stories from their lives and from their communities. With stylized cartoonish figures, dark scenes, and reminders of home ranging from native cactus plants to Styrofoam lean cups, these artists are representing the visual language of self. They pour the inner workings of their minds into oil paintings containing potent personal histories. This show displays the experience of distorted memories and how that forms and shapes, not only a person, but the perspective of reality.
Sean Terrell is a painter and multi-media artist from Houston, TX based out of NYC. Terrell’s paintings illuminate and hide with light and shadow, creating a tension and balance between the dark and bright, heavy and soft. Harsh light casting strong shadows onto both the real and unreal, text and image. Tracing natural forms in the landscape and in the body represented both abstractly and in stylized depiction. Perceptions of light and memory fade and blur like smoke and moonlight through trees. His paintings evoke a dreamlike whimsy with a foreboding shadow, we witness the ripples and reflections of light on the surface of the dark water. He graduated from Pratt in 2023.
John Duro is an African American painter born in Houston, TX. Duro’s paintings use high contrast light and shadow to depict the duality of everyday life, the hardships that test the limits of self, and how home and firsthand experiences form and bleed into our unique visual languages. Showing images of POC in dark and gruesome circumstances, he is thinking about counterculture and how it can find it’s way to you even if it’s negative, criminal or a scam. He uses a dark sketch technique to bring his own stylized, hand drawn element to his unique style of work. He has shown work at the Pablo Cardoza Gallery, and more. He went to the high school for the performing and visual arts in Houston, TX.
Jenaro Raheem Goode is painter and multidisciplinary Caribbean artist from East Texas. Goode’s paintings are surreal both in the perspective of the images and in the subject matter, incorporating symbols of home with memories and shared stories. Illuminating his visual perspective on life, he paints distorted figures and perspectives featuring cartoons, pipes, garbage pail kids, Styrofoam cups, super heros, games of domino, with famous boxers and golfers. Goode utilizes and manipulates space both in the images and in the installation of canvases on the wall. He is working with the representation of black people in media, his own perceptions of and the distorted visual language of home. He has shown work at Martha’s Contemporary in Austin, TX, the Michael Goss foundation in Dallas, TX, the Preacher Gallery in Austin, TX, and more. He went to the University of Houston for graphic design.
Yannina’s Taboada is a painter based out of Houston, TX. Her work is based on stories she has heard or witnessed, and she intends to bring awareness to the difficulties of life and continually come back to community. Her work is aware of the violence that is being perpetrated against minorities and women and fighting through the circumstances of abuse and she is creating beautiful images for people to be aware of the underlying strength in the human spirit. Taboada’s most meaningful work was done at a dark time where she was plagued with hurting, portraying a beauty with an underlying sadness, and a strength to continue in the face of darkness. Her work is to start a conversation to promote change with awareness, taking the dark and sad and transforming it with community. She was born in Portchester, NY, she is a second generation Mexican American. She lived the best days of her childhood in Puebla, Mexico. She moved to Houston, TX after her grandmother passed and she’s been here since. She has a minor in art from Houston Community College and a BFA in studio art from the University of Houston Downtown. She has shown work in the London Art Biennale 2023, Stola Contemporary in Chicago, The Arsenal in NY, and more.
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