Current Featured Artist Exhibition: Jasmin Iskandar de Caro – Citrinitas
Small works of whimsy by local artist Jasmin Iskandar de Caro. These paintings highlight the shift from her reflective, lunar practice of abstract expressionism into a more active, solar way of painting. This body of work speaks to the value of beauty for beauty’s sake, and seeks to transcend the heavy labor of the artist’s usual fine art practice.
Jasmin Iskandar de Caro was born outside Los Angeles, California to immigrant parents whose roots span Mexico, Italy, and China by way of Indonesia. Raised in an assimilation-driven household with little connection to a defined cultural lineage, she developed an early sense of dislocation that led her to question ideas of identity and belonging. Over time, her inquiry shifted toward understanding belonging not as a cultural inheritance, but as a deeper state of being.
Artist Statement
I create abstract paintings that are visually complex and suggestive of a narrative arc, inviting the eye to move throughout the composition as though embarking on a journey. I am deeply influenced by James Joyce’s concept of aesthetic arrest—the idea that a work of art can suspend the psyche in a moment of pure perception. By offering a stimulating visual field, my work seeks to extend the moment in which perception arises before interpretation begins.
Website: www.BosqueOscuro.com
Upcoming Artist Exhibition: Sandra Drabant – Where the Brush Leads: Spontaneous and Intuitive Paintings
These paintings are layered canvases of color and texture. The surprise of this intuitive process is an engaging and imaginative experience that has revealed images of nature, symbolizing concepts such as growth, change, life, death, spirituality and the passage of time.
Artist Statement
Sandra Drabant earned a BA in Fine Art and a Graduate Diploma in Education in Australia, followed by a Master’s in Art Therapy from the University of Illinois Chicago. She currently works as an art therapist at Michigan Medicine and has exhibited in solo and group shows in Australia and the United States.
This body of work is a series of paintings that evolved from an intuitive process. My paintings take shape without any predetermined plan and develop by spontaneous response and choice, often relying on my instincts to guide the work. This process is creatively freeing as there is no “right or wrong”, just what intuitively feels harmonious to me in the moment.
Website: www. arteverafter.com/gallery
