LUCÍA VIDALES

"Cercanía (Closeness)", 2023

Acrylic and Chinese ink on paper

24 ¾ x 19 ⅜ inches (61.6 x 49.3 cm)

Courtesy of the Artist and Proxyco Gallery

Selected by Priscila Hudgins

Mexico City, Mexico, 1986

Lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico.  

Lucía Vidales´s work is concerned, above all, with painting. The body is recurrent as figure, as the painted gaze, and as the painting itself. Fragmented limbs often seem to emerge from, or sink into, the luminous or shadowy depths of her painterly surfaces. For Vidales, painting can transform time, our relationship with matter, and how we experience our own bodies. She is interested in a liminal and polyvalent use of color, and a fluid relationship with drawing — as evidenced by the layered remains of decision after decision, which are by turns sedimented in the work’s material surface, or invisibly erased, or still pending. Vidales’s work is informed by the consequences of historical and colonial imaginaries as they continue to impact actual bodies and the body of painting itself. The beings that populate her paintings suggest the potential for confrontation, but seldom follow through. Instead they play with humor or anxiety, or seek consolation from ancient wounds. 

Vidales has exhibited extensively in Mexico as well as internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include: Sudor Frío, PROXYCO, New York (2021); Manoteta, PEANA, Monterrey, Mexico (2021); To cool the blue, Taka Ishii Gallery Ph / F, Tokyo (2020); Noche durante el día, Sala Gam, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City (2019); Come as you are, House of Deslave, Tijuana (2019); and Cuerpo de esta sombra, Galería Alterna, Mexico City (2018)