Gloria Sebastián Fierro chiefly works with oil on canvas, yet they also experiment with textiles, collage and drawing. Fierro investigates painting as a method to obtain knowledge. Their early work mainly focuses on understandings of landscape, thinking how environments have shifted through time and pondering potential extra-terrestrial habitats. The paintings slip and slide between figuration and abstraction, with serene, bucolic scenes morphing into aqueous pools of colour. Initially the works appear soothing, delivered in subtle, calming tones, yet the scenes depicted have unsettling undertones running throughout. Hooded figures lurk in corners, forests dissolve in the peripheries of the canvas, or neon structures divide these vistas. A sense of unease pervades Fierro’s works. They embody a similar tonality to the surrealist work of Max Ernst, Remedios Varo or Leonora Carrington, yet the distinct alien lexicon developed by Fierro generates a novel arena for the artist to work within. Within their practice, Fierro continually investigates contemporary understandings of space and time, using painting as their primary methodology to better understand our place in the universe.

Instituto de Visión

Los Angeles

Alac

Basel

Art Basel

New York City

Frieze

Liste Art Fair

Bogotá

Artbo

El Museo

San Francisco

Jessica Silverman

Turin

Luce Gallery

Cali

Galería Jenny Vila

Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá

Gloria Sebastián Fierro

Volcán #3

Eterno retorno

Yarumo en taller

End of line

Lost & Found

Canasta

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Salmo II