DEBORAH SPORTES
DEBORAH SPORTES is an atypical artist. Outside of any school or movement, painting is for her a form of writing where she inscribes herself in the face of the world, playing with different techniques, dimensions, and mediums.
We know her work for its large formats composed of projections of acrylic in bright, joyful, and dense colors, tagged with injunctions in English that could be snippets of dialogue from an American series or the chorus of a rap song, an urban and Western reflection taken from the spirit of the times with humor and good humor. We are less familiar with her series of drawings caricaturing girls with tenderness, as in a comic strip where music and words would fit into a Woody Allen-style casting. DEBORAH SPORTES tackles any medium, whether it's paper, canvas, clothing, or notebook, fence or wall; from rough to flexible, DEBORAH SPORTES tames or domesticates what comes to hand with an energy that becomes strength through the joy of colors, their dense and thick interweaving that recalls the large flat areas of the great Joan Mitchell, whom she admires.
But DEBORAH SPORTES' work is different and very personal. The acrylic projection contradicts itself, the colors intertwine in a tight and violent net, and the words reappear, violent and destructive. The viewer is left suffocated and can understand that behind this vivid harmony arise more complex masses, gaping and painful tears.
This hypothesis could be based on the artist's early works made of pastels, watercolors, where the free continuous line scribbled in the freedom of an automatic gesture is already punctuated with angry and rebellious jolts. DEBORAH SPORTES is certainly today in the blossoming of an already rich career, always solitary, independent and free, atypical but certainly unique.
The artist's works
