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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