Espacio Andrea Brunson
Santiago
FOCUS LATAM
Espacio Andrea Brunson (EAB) began as a traveling gallery that temporarily takes over different spaces, mounting short-term exhibitions. For a year now, it has had an established space within the gallery circuit of the upper-class neighborhood of the city of Santiago de Chile, seeking a balance between the craft and content of the artistic work; valuing the independence of the artist and his vision. EAB appreciates teamwork and communication between the gallery and the artist in order to enhance the creative development of those who show their work in the space.
Founded in 2018 by Andrea Brunson, the gallery has its main focus on painting and drawing, working mainly with emerging and mid-career artists.
www.espacioandreabrunson.cl/
andrea@espacioandreabrusnon.cl
Artists at Swab:
Isidora Villarino, Catalina Quezada
Gallery run by Andrea Brunson
Isidora Villarino
H. Fachada Continua, 2024
Drawing based on pigment and pencil on paper
45 x 30 cm
Catalina Quezada
Untitled, 2024
Encaustic on wood
20 x 26 cm
United under the technique of drawing/painting, working under a diametrically opposed color palette, both artists intertwine contents around memory. Isidora takes as a starting point the perception of space, its identity and the way in which it is inhabited and tirelessly transformed based on a permanent movement of the city. The way in which the artist develops her drawings – through a work of superimposition of translucent layers – emulates the process of making memory (a transversal theme in her work) reflecting on the vulnerability of the spaces we inhabit and the way in which we build history upon history, even relegating it to oblivion.
Catalina, on the other hand, focuses on isolated memories or perceptions of a memory from a personal process of introspection and meditation that lead her to connect with personal images that touch the limit between reality and fiction; hence her images move between figuration and abstraction, referring to the way in which a memory is stored in our memory.
Their images are presented as an apparition that often crosses the border of imagination. Ambiguity is suggested in the work of both artists, tensing past and present in the same image.