Gabriela Gomez-Mestre, Train Tracks
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Description
Mixed Media on Silkscreen Paper. 18" x 24". 2020.
Unframed: $400 + $26.50 (6.625% NJ Sales Tax) = $426.50
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GABRIELA GOMEZ-MESTRE is originally from Santa Marta, Colombia and came to the United States in 2002. She currently lives in Weehawken, NJ and graduated from NJCU in 2020 with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts.
Mestre wants viewers to think more about their surroundings, consider their time in any space and not let everyday life become the “background” so easily. She invites people to think outside the box, start a conversation, and allow people come to their own conclusions. Part of her work process is to let her intuition and sub-consciousness take charge. Her work is meant to invoke an emotional experience or a memory in her audience.
ABOUT THE WORK
As an emerging artist, Mestre is concerned with the mundane as an essential compound of our everyday experience. In other words, the nuts and bolts that hold our everyday together figuratively speaking. Her work is inspired by her experience riding the New Jersey Light Rail, the carelessness of the way people treat the tickets, the back and forth movement/motion of the light rail train, and most importantly, by the setting of each car. She has taken disposable tickets out of its context and re-contextualize it into a new environment. As her base image she created a grid of rows and columns of the tickets used to ride the Light Rail - some are blurred entirely, cropped, or deteriorating. Overlaid is a fluid colored shape unique to each print. She’s also added textured colored lines distinctive to each print. This body of work consists of these three elements since she works in a formula of repetition.
Mestre’s process began collecting New Jersey Light Rail tickets personally as well as from nearby station’s floor. Using Photoshop, she manually aligned each ticket with the other, creating the background layer of prints on matte paper that are 18” x 24”. Tickets represent the background of “real life”, blurred out due to the busyness of everyday life. Mestre decontextualized the tickets in two different ways - by cropping significant information on the tickets or blurring out in a very pixilated way information only familiar to those who are regular riders.
The organic shapes on top were done with silkscreen ink, while filling out areas of transparent paper (film) as well as cutting out shapes from construction paper. These organic peculiar shapes are meant to portray regular everyday commuters. On top of these two layers, Mestre used different colored oil sticks to show texture and back and forth movement and more repetition inspired by the motion of the Light Rail.
Mestre wants viewers to think more about their surroundings, consider their time in any space and not let everyday life become the “background” so easily. She invites people to think outside the box, start a conversation, and allow people come to their own conclusions. Part of her work process is to let her intuition and sub-consciousness take charge. Her work is meant to invoke an emotional experience or a memory in her audience.
ABOUT THE WORK
As an emerging artist, Mestre is concerned with the mundane as an essential compound of our everyday experience. In other words, the nuts and bolts that hold our everyday together figuratively speaking. Her work is inspired by her experience riding the New Jersey Light Rail, the carelessness of the way people treat the tickets, the back and forth movement/motion of the light rail train, and most importantly, by the setting of each car. She has taken disposable tickets out of its context and re-contextualize it into a new environment. As her base image she created a grid of rows and columns of the tickets used to ride the Light Rail - some are blurred entirely, cropped, or deteriorating. Overlaid is a fluid colored shape unique to each print. She’s also added textured colored lines distinctive to each print. This body of work consists of these three elements since she works in a formula of repetition.
Mestre’s process began collecting New Jersey Light Rail tickets personally as well as from nearby station’s floor. Using Photoshop, she manually aligned each ticket with the other, creating the background layer of prints on matte paper that are 18” x 24”. Tickets represent the background of “real life”, blurred out due to the busyness of everyday life. Mestre decontextualized the tickets in two different ways - by cropping significant information on the tickets or blurring out in a very pixilated way information only familiar to those who are regular riders.
The organic shapes on top were done with silkscreen ink, while filling out areas of transparent paper (film) as well as cutting out shapes from construction paper. These organic peculiar shapes are meant to portray regular everyday commuters. On top of these two layers, Mestre used different colored oil sticks to show texture and back and forth movement and more repetition inspired by the motion of the Light Rail.