Jade Doreen Waller Jade Doreen Waller, an innovative young artist from Cape Town, is creating a stir in the interdisciplinar y visual art industr y with her unique approach to Urban Contemporar y art. Having presented the highly successful solo exhibition “Between Ourselves” in Cape Town two years ago, Waller is ready to deliver her second show, “Overload”. For “Overload” the artist created an entire new body of work that shows off her creativity and skill. Waller’s concepts are deeply rooted in Urban Contemporar y subculture, evident in the multiple layers of images in her work. In “Between Ourselves” Waller ushered a collection of smooth, cold, pearlescent and uncluttered paintings that lured us into her deep oceanic subconscious. Now she blows the discernment demonstrated in her previous work ‘out of the water’ by expelling ever ything ever ywhere all the time. “Overload “is electrically charged, crammed and unedited. Each painting forces a package of incongruent visual data that now only reflects Waller’s thought processes but also speaks to the randomness and excessiveness contained within the mix of our urban visual culture. Waller’s new scrupulously detailed paintings are deceptive. They are not the product of the kind of premeditated process one would expect to find in the presence of such intricacy and chiaroscuro. Waller’s studio is more like a factor y where paintings pop out from the never-ending cerebral conveyor belt of forms whose places are designated on the canvas. Waller’s ability to capture detail as fast as she thinks it is a measure of her superb craftsmanship, as well as a mirror of our frenetic existence. The works are symptomatic of an information overload. They present of an information overload. They present bundles of tightly packed regurgitated symbols, which purge and scream the plethora of scattered thoughts that dart around Waller’s brain during an engagement with her canvas. Her allegories, a glimpse into Waller’s world, are superbly realized with meticulous detail, reminiscent of Dutch and
Flemish styles, making her work inescapably alluring. The scenes of these works show a bizarre juxtaposition of object in unexpected arrangements; their realist execution with their sugared-up yet metallic use of color all work to create artworks that speak to the discourse of Pop Surrealism, in which young artists use traditional methods in contemporar y ways. Whilst being mesmerized by the sumptuousness of her paintwork, the onlooker is met with image clusters of a constipated consumerist culture about to explode. Trapped inside Waller’s brain, by way of her paintings, one feels assaulted by the densely packed meteorites of urban street culture. Like a virus inhabiting her corrupt organisms. Within the infected galaxies of her daydreams, Waller’s conglomerates of toys, pills, food, body parts, cartoon icons, insects, bric-a-brac, games and accessories become suspended between the beginning and the end of creation. While her paintings capture a private cerebral conversation, they offer a cr ystal clear reflection of the transient and accumulative symbols of our urban existence. Waller’s unique ability to innovatively manipulate and combine contrasting images offers a lucid insight into how she interprets and perceives her surrounding reality. Ilhaam Behardien
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WATCH DISCO BANNANA PINS Oil and spray paint on canvas 100 x 100 cm SOLD
BOW VIRUS PINEAPPLE SKULL Oil and spray paint on canvas 100 x 100 cm
£ 1,049
MUnny pill mickey eyeball cake Oil and spray paint on canvas 80 x 60 cm
ÂŁ 769
Frog Candy, Ring boot bunny tooth Oil and spray paint on canvas 130 x 70 cm
ÂŁ 1,049
needle daisy brains Oil and spray paint on canvas 80 x 40 cm
ÂŁ 659
Untitled Oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm
ÂŁ 490
rhythm of impulse Oil on canvas 70 x 120 cm
ÂŁ 990
Red’s kids paradox Oil on board 121 x 63 cm
£ 960
REaction formation 2 Oil on canvas 100 x 50 cm
ÂŁ 795
REaction formation 1 Oil on canvas 100 x 50 cm SOLD
REaction formation 3 Oil on canvas 100 x 50 cm
£ 795
REaction formation 4 Oil on canvas 100 x 50 cm
£ 795
Mask millie earrings Oil on canvas 80 x 40 cm
ÂŁ 659
SUgar bloo pumpkin pills Oil and spray paint on canvas 100 x 100 cm SOLD
popsicle party Oil on skate deck 82 cm
ÂŁ 549
The evening is over Oil on skate deck 82 cm
ÂŁ 549
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