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Red Night 1
In Red Night 1 a large eye crowds the center of the work. The eye might be open, punctuated by a leaf-like pupil, or it might be closed, long gray eyelashes extending towards the bottom left of the canvas. The eye emerges from a landscape, the forest being an important motif to Acosta, or perhaps that is two legs walking through the frame. Acosta’s paintings are meditations on transience - she makes numerous preparatory drawings responding to a particular moment in nature, then obfuscates the moment with dreams and memories in order to construct deeply personal narratives around landscape, death, rebirth, diaspora, hybridity, dislocation and love.
Sydney Acosta is a Los Angeles-based artist who explores the preciousness of time through direct observations of nature that she obfuscates with memories and dreams. Acosta is influenced by landscape and vanitas painting, using a concise visual language ranging from the personal - fast cars, dance music, family photographs, the forest, butterflies, money trees, hearts, roses - to the historical - hybridized religious art, feminist queer literate, and poetry. The result is work that meditates on death and rebirth, diaspora and migration, hybridity, dislocation and love. She is concerned with the copied, the reusable, the remembered and imagined; work that is neither autobiographical nor representational, existing in a space somewhere between the stillness of photography and a fleeting thought.
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Sydney Acosta explores the preciousness of time through direct observations of nature that she obfuscates with memories and dreams. Acosta is influenced by landscape and vanitas painting, using a concise visual language ranging from the personal — fast cars, dance music, family photographs, the forest, butterflies, money trees, hearts, roses — to the historical — hybridized religious art, feminist queer literate, and poetry. The result is work that meditates on death and rebirth, diaspora and migration, hybridity, dislocation, and love. She is concerned with the copied, the reusable, the remembered and imagined — work that is neither autobiographical nor representational, existing in a space somewhere between the stillness of photography and a fleeting thought.
Sydney Acosta lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include It Never Entered my Mind at Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, There is Feeling at Night gallery, Lavinia at Hannah Hoffman, The Gift of Strawberries at South Willard, Filled with Song at Kristina Kite, When Stones Clash, Michael Benevento, The Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, of the world (with Luz Carabaño), at CASTLE, Los Angeles, CA. She has been supported by the MacDowell Fellowship, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the LA Lakers emerging artist grant and the American Austrian Foundation. She received her MFA from UCLA in 2021.
