Abby Is PaintER IN BK.
(but all credit should go to the water - i just put it there and things become something else.)
Drawing on a multitude of references, DeShazo creates compositions that represent, reframe and intertwine the complexity of her past and current emotional experiences. Born in Los Angeles, but now in Brooklyn NY, her work reflects a blending of life at – and between – both coasts with a focus on individuals who evoke a unique, and often constant, cathexis in her.
‘Why’ behind affinities
from Constantly Becoming Exhibit
“When I first see something, I know right away if it’s something I’ll work with, even if I don’t get around to it for a year or two. But, I frequently find myself having the opposite problem, that is, there being too many subjects I want to paint at one time…
Despite the overwhelm this can induce internally (which i don’t always love), I’ve found that the nature of these overlapping affinities towards subjects – which often occur at points in time too near to each other to be fully untangled– allows my pieces to become intra-associative and iterative, with each element of the piece relating to the next, and so on. In my mind, these pieces become something akin to William James and Bertrard Russell’s Turtles All the Way Down philosophical anecdotes. As a highly associative thinker, this evolution towards something less linear (and rather, curvilinear)… when I get lucky… leads to final pieces which best illustrate element’s circularity in their theme or form, and are most congruent with how I see things around me.
I imagine that fluidity and circularity’s resonance for me has something to do with the fact that I see myself and those around me as perennially becoming, rather than simply being.”
Email for inquiries: abigailpdeshazo@gmail.com
Instagram: @abbydeshazo