Labyrinth of Blooms A PRELUDE TO A MASQUERADE
A Collection of Paintings and Photographs
by Katrina Pallon
Labyrinths are ancient symbols of wholeness as it creates the imagery of the circle and the spiral comprised of interspersed patterns. It represents a journey of going and looking into our very core through a purposeful albeit meandering path. In LABYRINTH OF BLOOMS, Katrina Pallon translates the emblematic spiral into different compositions in acrylics, ink, watercolor, and photos.
Fusing ornate Pan-Asian motifs and exquisite blooms, Pallon enjoins the onlooker to look closely into each exhibit piece - to see past visual labyrinths of colors, patterns and that symbolic flora – as she relates different stories of women through a visual spectacle comprised of paintings and photographs.
LABYRINTH OF BLOOMS: A Prelude to a Masquerade is her first solo exhibition and is a prologue, a teaser of some sort, for bigger things to come.
Katrina Pallon is a visual artist working with the medium of paint, photography, and masks. She also works as a freelance graphic designer and writer, participates in spoken word events particularly that of Romancing Venus, and sings for an independent rock band called Scarlet Tears.
Highly influenced by the intricacies of French art nouveau, Asian textile prints and patterns, Venetian masks, flora, circuses, and carnivals, Pallon’s artistic works attest to her love for elaborate designs and her knack for romanticizing even the simplest of subjects. Her works are mostly about women, of dark and melancholic, sometimes mystical figures and tales, of the fleeting beauty of things, of masks and mystery – oftentimes using warm, vivid tones to translate these images into paintings and/or photographs.
