Deborah Oropallo
Deborah Oropallo was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. According to the San Jose Museum of Art, Oropallo “received her B.F.A. from Alfred University in New York State, and her M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.” She now reside in Berkeley, California where she spends her days painting mundane object which slowly creating a striking image of poetic importance. She uses daily object such as ropes, tires, and doormats and transformed them into paintings where viewers can interpret a different meaning. In her most recent paintings, Oropallo’s uses the technique of digital photography and Iris prints. According to the LGI Digital & Fine Art Printing, “Iris Printing offer richness, detail and depth that clearly set them apart from traditional offset lithography.” Her paintings may seem far from sensuous paintings of other artist, yet the vibrant colors and suggestive overlays provide these objects visually dominant in a special way. When she discovered this new way of art, she continue to discover the hidden beauty that lay in the objects that surround us in our daily life. She uses objects that are from our industrial surroundings to provide us with messages that she sees within our economy. She used o
bject such as railroad tracks, flour packages, stacks of cinder blocks, buckets, pipes, and other large industrial containers that we customarily ignore, to enhance our knowledge of what is going on in our economy. In a painting by Oropallo entitled “Oversize, 2001” made with Iris Print from oil on a larger than life canvas, she utilized large containers in our industry and paints to come up with a message to everybody. We can see at the far left hand corner, the container is labeled as hazardous materials, but in front of the whole paintings, she places the words “WELCOME.” Oropallo use photography to create this art work, she took a picture of these industrial containers sometimes during the day. Because of the shadow from the container to the right that cast on to the container on the left, we can see that the light hit those containers at an angle to create that kind of shadows. What we can assume about lighting in this art work is either it was taken from early in the morning or during the evening according to the placement of the camera. Also because of the sources of the lighting we can see the value of this art work; we can see the shapes of the container, the roundness of it. The artist is trying to emphasize the importance of the words “Welcome” that she has painted in front of the whole piece, she made it obvious to viewers that she wanted to get their attention by using red paint. By using red to paint the words “Welcome,” Oropallo’s has drawn the viewer’s eye to the label at the bottom of the containers, which is label warning about the containing of hazardous materials. This piece that was done is so large that it’s easy for us to see weather she has used the form of repetition or not, and we can see that she hasn’t. She has only used four main containers in the front of the piece, and she placed another two in the back of the main ones. The artist chooses her subject matters to be bright orange conta
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