A Passing Cloud / Elizabeth Ibarra

TATJANA PIETERS is pleased to invite you to the third solo exhibition by Mexican artist Elizabeth Ibarra at the gallery. About Elizabeth Ibarra’s creative explorations take form in painting, works on paper, mixed media sculptures and assemblages of tree branches she calls “Sunday Findings”. Through bold colours and expressionist gestures, Ibarra’s work refers to ideas of life beyond Earth and is unified through a sense of magic and haunting. Her pictorial representations of the figure are recognisably human but they also bare a strangeness, an unidentifiable alien nature. In doing so, Ibarra conjures a hybrid form of human and alien life and through gestural brushstrokes she gives them a sense of movement and brings these bodies to life. Ibarra’s hybrid forms could represent extraterrestrial beings, the experience of being a foreigner with an outside perspective or simply the feeling loneliness. However they are interpreted, Ibarra’s works are sensitive yet satirical in their mystical nature and provoke questions about human existence on planet Earth. Although her work bares resembles to modern masters such as Joan Miro, Louise Bourgeois, J. M. W. Turner as well as a nod to Romanticism, Ibarra did not undergo a formal education. Instead, her stylistic development was independent and inspired by the connectivity and simplicity of images and cosmology. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles (US). Recent solo exhibitions include Simchowitz Gallery, Los Angeles (US), Rental Gallery, New York (US), The Newsstand Project, Los Angeles (US), and TATJANA PIETERS, Ghent (BE). Recent group exhibitions include Biscuit Gallery, Tokyo (JP), Jac Forbes Gallery, Los Angeles (US), and TATJANA PIETERS GALLERY, Ghent (BE). Her work has been reviewed and featured in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Paris Review. Read more Toggle Painting Sculpture Multi-disciplinary Film / Video Drawing