Description

Luz Carabaño’s art practice explores the fluid interplay between abstraction and figuration, drawing deeply from memory, emotion, and the natural world. Her paintings are characterized by organic forms and gestural marks, often rendered in soft, layered hues that evoke an ethereal yet dynamic presence. With the release of our first collaboration with Carabaño, featuring her debut monotypes, she extends her exploration of color and muted tones to create compositions that convey movement and tension. Biomorphic shapes emerge, suggesting ambiguous forms that invite personal interpretation. The subtle textures and translucent overlays highlight Carabaño’s mastery of the monotype process, infusing each piece with individuality and spontaneity. Her works inspire a meditative engagement with form, color, and materiality, offering viewers a space for reflection and connection.

About the Artist

Luz Carabaño (b. 1995, Maracay, Venezuela) is a Los Angeles–based Venezuelan artist. She received a BFA in studio art from New York University in 2017 and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2022. Carabaño works primarily in small-scale oil paintings on shaped supports, ceramic objects, drawings on paper, and handmade books. Recent solo exhibitions include iluminaciones, Nina Johnson (Miami, 2024); antesis, Super Super Markt (Berlin, 2024); encuentros, Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles, 2023); sombras, Lulu (Mexico City, 2023); rastros, Larder (Los Angeles, 2022); Unfoldings, april april (New York, 2022); and Ni Aquí, Ni Allá, Dimensions Variable (Miami, 2019). Carabaño was the 2021 recipient of the University of California, Los Angeles’s Helen Frankenthaler Award in Painting.