artist statement

alessandra delacruz
artist statement

i am constantly exploring the little secrets of oil paint. it creates miniature relationships with everything and anything it comes in contact with and to me that's fascinating. i love to see the way the paint interacts with texture and how itself creates texture. i experiment with almost any material that i can get my hands on because i'm in love with texture; keeping in mind the general hierarchy that oil paint itself demands. paint is the king, and everything else pays tribute to the paint.

my paintings are extremely physical. i paint them on the floor, in 360 degrees, constantly moving around them, lifting them, tilting them until i get the right movement on the canvas or wood. when the paintings get more developed, each stage of movement is more difficult because they become heavier, especially the really large pieces. i believe that the success of the visual and emotional elements of each piece greatly rely on this physicality.

i can never re-create some of those little discoveries and happy accidents in paintings which sometimes bothers me, especially when I really love a section of a painting. though at the same time its rather humbling to realize things will never be the same and you are not ultimately in control. sometimes these relationships in the painting can be disastrous, but they are beautiful. and if your're lucky, even life changing.