Bolivia native Jessica Baldivieso opens ‘Subtle Changes’ at Oak Cliff Cultural Center

Painter Jessica Baldivieso opens a solo exhibition Subtle Changes at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center this month.

The show, which opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 29, consists of Baldivieso’s current body of work, “focusing on the use of receding line, gradated color, and scale to explore spatial experiences inside and outside the canvas.”

The Dallas resident also offers an immersive painting installation inspired by Catedral Metropolitana Basilica in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, her hometown.

With a background in architecture and an interest in the power of spatial experience, Baldivieso utilizes skillfully rendered line in her paintings to “direct the viewer towards a path” and draw them into the compositional space. Canvases charged with vibrant and gradated color combined with her receding line create movement and suggest temporality while others rendered only in white “let the viewer focus on shadows, texture and the subtleties of the brush stroke”. Large-scale works seek to establish a “corporal relationship” with the viewer and envelop them in the space while smaller works express her interest in the relationship between the canvas and the frame. Each of the paintings in Subtle Changes encourage contemplation of experiential spatial relationships between the viewer, the canvas, and the space that holds both.