artist crush: kristin texeira
i've had my eye on kristin texeria for over a year now. i was drawn to her work immediately because of the colors and shapes she uses. the composition is a designers delight and the hint of narrative she adds at the bottom helps ground this abstracted world. i love the simplicity and how it doesn't fall flat or leave you right away. for me, i pause and create a story in my head. i project my own narrative to fill in the gaps. i wonder what it would be like if i looked into the world and this is how it looked back at me. i love the translation of objects, space and how it is combined with a fragment of a memory.
“I paint to remember. Through subtle shifts in colors or ranges of contrasting colors, I attempt to create something familiar, and—at the same time—something entirely elusive and intangible, like a forgotten word on the tip of one’s tongue. My colors blend and bounce off of each other. They tell of a person or place’s ambiguous history. This vagueness is complemented by specifics in my writing, which—while focusing on a moment’s singular identity and tender details—leaves much to the viewers’ interpretation.”
