Date: 7/2/2011 TO 10/9/2011
Time: 10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM

704 Pier View Way
Oceanside, CA 92054

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Event Description: Set in fantastic theatrical scenes, Marianela de la Hoz’s realistic portraits create an intimate and sometimes terrifying mirror of reality. Her miniature paintings visually recreate an internal world of the grievances, happiness, love and hate, sins, dreams, secrets, guilt and profound feelings that are part of everyday life. Metamorphores features a collection of drawings, egg tempera paintings and assembled works that explore the two constant characteristics in her work, metaphor and metamorphosis= metamorphores. De la Hoz’s work often makes references to her Mexican heritage but the real essence of the themes depicted are universal and inherent to human nature. Her work is inspired by the aesthetic literary movement called Hemofiction, in which blood, consciousness, time and space collide. Through her paintings she comments on the double morals in life, the atavisms, and the separation of body and soul. She expresses violence through fantasy, black humor and sarcasm in a style she calls “White Violence” small-format paintings depicting nicely-groomed characters, with only a small drop of blood when necessary, all representing a scene in which extreme situations are depicted. She is interested in the blood ties among human beings, the same weaknesses, addictions and worries, the eternal combination of good and bad in each and everyone, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde within ourselves.


Directions:
Oceanside Museum of Art The museum is located at 704 Pier View Way in downtown Oceanside, California within walking distance from the Oceanside transit center with Amtrak, Coaster, Sprinter and Metrolink stops.

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