Sequoia Scavullo’s art inhabits the space between dream and reality, emotion and abstraction. Her figurative paintings verge on the abstract, with layered textures evoking water, hair, fabric, or half-seen figures, all emerging from expressive, dense surfaces. Drawing from her Taíno heritage, she embraces a holistic worldview—where dreaming and waking are indistinguishable—and channels this into works that meld mind, body, and spirit, countering Western dualism. Central to her practice is the creation of a personal, symbolic alphabet—hieroglyph-like signs that populate her canvases. These symbols straddle intelligibility and abstraction, suggesting that painting can convey emotional nuance beyond language. Scavullo uses color, texture, and form to evoke emotional states. Her layered paint surfaces, often near total saturation of materiality, give rise to synesthetic experiences that feel both corporeal and otherworldly. Through her interplay of symbolism, dream logic, and material presence, she invites viewers into inner landscapes where the invisible, the intuitive, and the unspeakable become palpably present. ...
