Angela De La Cruz
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At first glance, de la Cruz's paintings appear to have been vandalised or flagrantly abused. Mangled stretchers, slashed canvases, twisted and violated, are hung on the wall like macabre trophies, and yet it is this deliberate and systematic desecration of the canvases, which informs the end result. Emotionally raw, yet canny and sharply ironic, de la Cruz confronts the 'problem' with painting by incorporating its very destruction into the work itself. "The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting."Violent, unapologetic and often darkly humorous, her work unabashedly exposes a visceral emotionalism, breaking the barriers of the established norms of painting. Implicit is the sense that a scene of frenetic violent activity has just taken place leaving in its wake the strangely paradoxical feeling of spent energy and a sense of calm; a visual catharsis.
Angela de la Cruz lives and works in London, UK
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Artist News
Altered States of Paint
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Group show
4 July – 7 September 2008
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Artist Exhibitions
Angela de la Cruz June 5 - July 3, 2004View Exhibition
Artist Images
Upright (3 leg chair), 2004 Mixed media 130 x 50 x 45 cm
Clutter IX (blue), 2004 Oil and acrylic on canvas and metal 188 x 98 x 40 cm
Vertical V (yellow/pink), 2004 Oil and acrylic on canvas 181 x 46 x 24 cm
Clutter wardrobes, 2004 Wood Dimensions variable
Larger than Life, 2004 Oil and acrylic on canvas 260 x 400 x 105 cm
Still Life (Table), 2000 Wood and oil and canvas 90 x 105 x 100 cm