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Carmen Torruella

CARMEN TORRUELLA-QUANDER’S skill lies in the ability to own her subjects. She first photographs them and it is at this time that she starts painting. She wastes no time in deciding what it is that she sees. What she sees and likes is immediate, intuitive and readily accepted. She calculates only for the purposes of translating what it is that she sees and as a result, there is a certain freedom that she offers those that enter her cipher – the freedom of self expression without apology – a freedom that comes from an ability and, more importantly, a willingness to look at the world as a reflection of oneself, to accept it without an extra or unnecessary thought and then to share it.

It takes a good representational artist to understand that we tend to have “selective vision” - for it is the eradication of this that the representational artist seeks in order to capture what is truly there. The labor of representational art is seated in an attempt and sometime a struggle to imitate life. Representational art or “realism” is not the only path to clarity of vision or thought, however, it can effectively be used as a means to a better understanding of the reality of one’s own subjectivity. One could say that a mastery of realism in visual art presupposes and, indeed, implies a thorough and mature understanding of the abstract and all its principles.

Excerpt about her work provided by Carmen Torruella