Eduardo Sarabia:

Tainted

Eduardo Sarabia: Tainted featured a series of paintings of everyday images covered with daubs of colored paint. The images, which appear to be family snapshots, often show people in the sunshine, near the water, looking as if they might be smiling for the camera. However, it is impossible to tell for certain because the faces are obscured with swirls of paint. The clouds of paint covering the images somehow manage to be obstructive without being discordant and the color palette of the splotches matches that of the photos it obscures. They are paintings on paintings–illustrating the duality of reality and illusion–as relevant to life as it is to art.

Eduardo Sarabia was born in 1976 in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles and has participated in international group exhibitions such as The Whitney Biennial in 2008 and Everything Must Go, which he co-organized with José Noe Suro. He has had solo shows at I-20 Gallery, New York, and LA Louver, Los Angeles. He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.