Darian Mederos

Distorted view

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Darian Mederos is a painter and visual artist who is known for his unique and different approach to painting. He is best recognized for his signature bubble-wrap style where he paints individual bubbles over portraits for added texture and effect. Mederos’ work focuses on the ubiquitous human face. Emotive and replete with meaning, our faces encompass the vast human experience, revealing everything at once or nothing at all.

When creating the “Obscura Series”, Mederos creates something new, a photorealistic abstraction. The bubble wrap reflects light and distorts the underlying image, it is only at a distance that the works come into focus.

Alexandra Bellissamo 

The relationship between nature and mankind.

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Alexandra Bellissimo makes artworks that focus on “making” pictures rather than simply “taking” pictures. To make her surreal images, she uses collage techniques in combination with her photographs. In doing so, she combines man with nature to create works infused with emotion and psychology.

Alexandra Bellissimo’s body of work extends beyond traditional photograph. Her imagery explores the physical and psychological relation between nature and humans when combined through the use of collage. Her collaging process involves cutting layering and adhering photographic prints together into a single image. Bellisimo’s collages evoke a sense of empathy, intimacy and harmony when humans and nature coexist.

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Bellisimo’s images are constructed through a combination of photographs and collage. Her outcomes are black and white, crisp and sharp images with a variety of grey scale tones. Her images are taken with artificial lighting in a studio which resulted in high detailed images. Her images have a range of tones from light to dark to create highlights and contrast. The absence of colour helps to bring out the definition of her images. The arrangement and layout of her images tend to be head-shots and portraits. I believe Bellisimo’s photographs have a deeper meaning than what is seen by the eye. Her photographs show the relationship between nature and humans, it could be nature taking over humans as punishment for how we treat the planet, for example.

Mederos paints his images, in the circles of the bubble wrap he paints large strokes, it is only when you step away that the whole images comes together to reveal what is underneath. His images are very warm with a mixture of light and dark tones. Mederos paints the light that reflects off the bubble wrap to create the effect that it has been photographed with artificial lighting.

The difference between these two artists is Bellisimo photographs and collages and Mederos paints large images with big brushes that when stepped away from has masses amount of detail. Bellisimo’s images have hidden messages and send a message about nature and the world around us, compared to Mederos who paints images with large detail that do not need a hidden message to engage the viewer, his interesting and abnormal technique is enough to attract the viewers eyes.