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① Artwork:
Unicornio
In this painting, the artist cleverly juxtaposes depth and flatness within the shapes and shadows of a birds-eye poolside view. Reflections, textures, lines, and a joyful rainbow unicorn raft, animate the canvas. It is playful in tone, color, and pattern, echoing one of the artist’s meaningful childhood moments in Colombia.
In this series, the artist combines visual references from life and photographs, coalescing repeated experiences into one image.
Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo depicts scenes from memory, merging nostalgia with contemporary life. While his paintings offer us a window into his life, they also capture a specific feeling through dynamic and often dramatic first-person perspectives, allowing viewers to insert themselves into the painting.
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③ Artist:
Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo depicts scenes from memory, merging nostalgia with contemporary life. While his paintings offer us a window into his life, they also capture a specific feeling through dynamic and often dramatic first-person perspectives, allowing viewers to insert themselves into the work.
Esteban Ocampo-Giraldo was born in 1987 in Manizales, Colombia, and lives in New York City, NY. He earned his MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in New York City, NY (2015) and a degree in Visual Arts with Graphic Expression Emphasis from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia.
He has mounted solo exhibitions at ZieherSmith Gallery in New York City, NY (2017); Gitler &_____ in New York City, NY (2016); BRAS Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2016); and Taller Abierto Gallery in Manizales, Colombia (2013).
Ocampo-Giraldo has participated in group shows such as Art Can’t Love You: New Art From Colombia at ZieherSmith Gallery in Nashville, TN (2022); Power Of Silence at Art Lines Gallery in Hackensack, NJ (2017); 1st Annual National Juried Exhibition at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in Wausau, WI (2017); and About Face at Southampton Arts Center in Southampton, NY (2017).
In this painting, the artist cleverly juxtaposes depth and flatness within the shapes and shadows of a birds-eye poolside view. Reflections, textures, lines, and a joyful rainbow unicorn raft, animate the canvas. It is playful in tone, color, and pattern, echoing one of the artist’s meaningful childhood moments in Colombia.More
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