Artists Talk: Alee Garibay on tracing memory and the romance of the painter’s studio

Alee Garibay’s new series of paintings were produced during the lockdown. Currentlyfeatures close-ups of family, friends, personal objects, suspended fragments, and scribbled thoughts. “Traces of existence, moments of intimacy, all captured suspended, paused, so I can sift and run my hands, my eyes, my mind through them in slow motion,” Alee says.

“Interesting insight. I like how you phrased that—bold approximations, assertions of remembrance. How the faint tracing of memory can also be a brave assertion of who or what remains. After all, memory shapes our identity, like how water is soft, fluid, but its persistent flow cuts out rocks.” “Lately I have been more consciously feeling and practicing my way into presence, or just being, by feeling into the physicality and tangibility of my body and my breathing and the motions that it goes through in its day to day living. I noticed that I tend to run on auto-pilot—acting out habits, spacing out and not really engaging as myself, or as a consciously responding entity or body.

“A seeking for a more integrated creation or studio practice is still rooted in the idea of being an organic being—living, doing, creating from a response to an impulse. Maybe that is quite contradictory in the sense that art making is not necessarily, at least in the Western tradition, a natural, basic, or physiological need or predilection, but entails deliberation, will, and discipline.

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