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FEMALE ARTISTS BRING NEW CONTEMPORARY ART TO MADRID
31January
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FEMALE ARTISTS BRING NEW CONTEMPORARY ART TO MADRID

 

Mando (born Amanda Marie) is an American artist who lives in Colorado, where she resides since 2001. Her work is divided between the creation of smaller works on paper and others of larger dimensions on canvas for gallery shows, as well as large scale outdoor murals.

 


Her graphic work is usually interpreted by children and young people so as to promote intelligent messages, often subtle, that often cross the line between the comforting and the creepy.  

 


Amanda's paintings use a combination of very different media and techniques. In most of her work she uses printing and some elements that she has drawn beforehand to create stencils that are finished later with spray-paint.  

 


Andenken Gallery, Amsterdam, is the gallery that represents this artist in URVANITY. www.seeyouthroughit.com  

 


Miss Van began painting murals when she was only 20 years of age, in 1993, thus initiating the female movement in Street Art. Originally from Toulouse, France, she has spent most of her artistic life in Barcelona. Miss Van has traveled all over the world painting her women, who are instantly recognizable, on the streets, as well as on canvas. For decades she has exhibited in Europe, United States and Asia in prominent events and galleries. Soon she will participate with some of her work in international fairs such as Blooom Art Show and ART FAIR Cologne.  

 



Last summer the CAC Málaga inaugurated her first individual exhibition in a museum, titled "The Wind In My Hair.” One of her latest works has been shown at the group show "Expulsion of the Limbo" at Fousion Gallery in Barcelona. It is precisely this gallery that will take the work of Miss Van to URVANITY. missvan.com  

 


Peca. Born in Argentina and based in Barcelona, ??this painter and illustrator is also a producer of stop motion films. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of La Plata and has worked for major publications such as Rolling Stone.  

 


Peca translates the images that appear in her dreams and meditations and turns them into attractive visual narrations filled with the language of a dream world full of universal symbols. To this, the spectator only has to open his heart and mind to the magic evoked by the artist.

 


As in the case of Miss Van, Fousion Gallery from Barcelona will represent this artist at URVANITY. www.artbypeca.com  

 


Jessica Hess is a hyperrealist landscape painter living in San Francisco. Her focus is on structure, simplicity and decadence. In practice, she works with photographs, which serve as both a reference and starting point. Her work stems from an accumulation of images and impressions of urban, industrial and abandoned architecture. Some paintings are made true to the original source, while others are reinvented, compiled and manipulated.  

 


Jessica is primarily attracted to utilitarian buildings where engineering takes precedence over aesthetics. Although the paintings are devoid of human life, the structures and sites with which they work testify to a human presence and the dynamic nature of urban environments. When painting sites full of graffiti, she participates in an anonymous collaboration with other artists, thus offering a gesture of gratitude to street art. The Valencian Gallery Plastic Murs will be in charge of taking her work to URVANITY.  www.jessicahess.com  

 


Laurence Vallières.  Born in Quebec in 1986, Laurence is known for creating large cardboard sculptures. After graduating and completing an artist's residency in Russia, urban art began to influence her work. Through the use of cardboard, a material found in abundance on the street, she can create large scale works in any part of the world she travels to.

 


Vallières likes to join her sculptures with her drawings by creating a relationship between them so that they communicate and challenge one another. The artist has learned to work in photography, painting, ceramics, metal and drawing. And it is precisely after working with all these materials separately that she feels the need to unite them in cohesive visions.  

 


In this first edition of URVANITY, Laurence will exhibit via Station 16 of Montreal, with an installation that will not leave anyone indifferent. www.laurencevallieres.com

 

 

URVANITY
Palacio de Neptuno
Calle de Cervantes, 42. Madrid - SPAIN
February 23-26th, 2017 www.urvanity-art.com
Times: Friday 16:00-24:00h / Saturday 12:00 - 22:00h / Sunday 11:00 - 19:00h
Price: 10€ at box office / 8€ web