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Rushing home, caught that (first draft)
This large work on paper is the start of a new body of work for the artist. The image is a street scene, a moment between two lovers, a mixture of desire and joy, pleasure and anxiety. Acosta’s work is drenched in red with dashes of green, as well as large swaths of black charcoal set against a white backdrop. The colors and materials symbolize fertility, devotion and disintegration, the union of tenderness and violence, and the marriage of destruction and liberation.
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.
