Art should not be used as a tool for capitalism. It is a tool for rebels. It is meant to make noise, and make people uncomfortable—and then have them question why they feel that way. Without impact, the message cannot be heard. So until impact is possible, these works experiment with texture, light, and color. Subject matter includes space, psychology, and figure-form art.
“Can we imagine the anguish felt by an artist who senses that the fulfillment of his dream is compromised by the weakness of his execution?”
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Invitational Award Winner by Victoria Zade. Phillip & Patricia Frost Art Museum, Creative Visions 2011. The award-winning artwork is a portrait of consciousness disintegrating into its environment, beyond borders.
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Victoria Zade is an abstract expressionist artist. Her open compositions use visible brushstrokes and vivid colors with little mixing to capture the emotion of light and movement. Not typically unified by a single style, she includes abstract elements and symbolic content in her artwork to not only convey the emotional qualities of the landscape, but also to serve as inquiry on the human condition and its relationship with the self.
Victoria’s artwork evolved from realism to modern impressionism by 2012, and further liberated from restriction and evolved into abstract expressionism by late 2015. Her splattered paintings spotlight the spontaneous creation and gestural paint application that have become her most recent reputation up to date.
Each of Victoria’s pieces carries the weight of a different moment in her life, combining subjects in realism with abstract shapes of symbolic nature. Her love of light and color becomes the unifying element that combines the stories spread across the canvas, transforming them into recognizable and approachable images from the most common to cosmic parts of our reality.
