The Queer Dynamics of Paolo Arao’s Selection of Recent Works

Joshua Ware, Southwest Contemprary, April 4, 2023

Textile artist Paolo Arao explores queerness through his materials, line work, titles, and forms in his show A Selection of Recent Works at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.

Brooklyn-based and Philippine-born artist Paolo Arao creates two-dimensional textile paintings trafficking in colorful, geometric abstraction. His current show A Selection of Recent Works, his second in David B. Smith Gallery’s project room, displays a representative body of his practice.

 

Arao, a current MacDowell fellow whose work has shown in the Columbus Museum of Art and the Everson Museum of Art, has previously noted that his artwork fosters a “queer dynamic” predicated upon “shift spacing.” The paintings featured in Recent Works are no exception.

 

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