Red Balloon 100 Catherine Moore Alec was raised in California

Alec was raised in California

and literally revealing corporeal inner beauty

"  she whined

These works discredit the unrealistic esthetic by peeling away the idealized facades — exhuming the splendor beneath the surface

spray paint

Red Balloon 100 Catherine Moore Alec was raised in CaliforniaDetails About Oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. 2019 Adam Caldwell My paintings and drawings juxtapose elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. During my training at the California College of Arts and Crafts, I began to create collage drawings that layered disparate images on top of one another; I now use oil paint in a similar way, starting with an abstract background and then adding more photorealistic details, allowing the work to