Luz Carabaño

(b. 1995, Maracay, Venezuela)

Luz Carabaño’s shaped canvases reflect and refract shadows from a familiar yet mirror-like world that transcends literal geographies. Wrapped in linen, her monochromatic works depict the objects named in their titles, which appear identifiable yet transformed. Angled and blurry, as if submerged under water, Carabaño’s subtle play with perspective prompts a sense of anamorphosis that requires movement and viewing from different angles before her images click into place. Small scale and intimate, they offer tightly zoomed-in visions that posit the limitations and possibilities of looking at the world from a particular position –Susanna V. Temkin, PhD

Carabaño received a BFA from NYU in 2017 and an MFA from the UCLA in 2022.