For much of her artistic career, Katrina Cuenca has been interested not in describing the world, but in creating an alternate magical realm to it, in which the color combinations beguile the eye, the resplendent forms provide access to quiet and contemplation, and the simplicity of her painterly gestures unlock the deepest corners of the imagination. She extends further her commitment
to this transportive place in her solo exhibition, Through the Looking Glass, organized by Pinto Art Museum for Artist Space.
While referencing Lewis Carroll’s literary masterpiece, the exhibit provides a subtler introduction to phantasmagoria in which the viewer, just like Alice, may frolic and take everything in: sculptural biomorphic forms appearing to waver and undulate, paintings responding to light in a multiplicity of ways, flashes of projection swimming onto…
