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Paintings

June 2019 Marietta Magazine Issue 2:
Interview by Erica Schreiner and images of paintings

May 2019 Maintenant 13: Dada Journal
Painting: Triptych "The power of the click"

April 2019 The Poetry Society of New York: Spilt Milk
Article on triptych "The Power of the Click"

Oct 2018 Wotisart Magazine, Issue 19

Painting: Triptych "The Power of the Click"

2017 Verses of April, Lala & Giono

Videos: La Politesse, The Physical

2012 Fiction Brigade: A collection of Flash Fiction

Painting : I'm not your Reality

2010 Sub-scribe Magazine, Nostalgia (Fall 2010)

Drawing: Outlander

PUBLICATIONS / PRESS

EDUCATION / RESEARCH

Oct 2019 Featured in article on The Gaze of a Parisienne

"The Gaze of a Woman Artist" by Florence Briat-soulié

Aug 2019 The Art Gorgeous Article
"Three Fresh Takes on the Female Gaze" by Katya Lopatko

Feb 2019 Konstepidemin, Announcement of exhibition:
"The Box"

July 2018 El Correo de Andalucia, Article on exhibition: The Power of the Click

July 2018 ABCdesevilla, Article on exhibition :
The Power of the Click

(b. 1988, USA)

October 2019 Bienvenue Art Fair, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, La Cité des Arts, Paris France

February 2019 Solo Exhibition: The Box, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg Sweden

May 2019 Live Art Performance: Experiment 88- Speak or Listen, Le Castel, Paris France

Aug/Sept 2018 Collective Exhibition: Lettres, Mots et Clics..., Galerie Art'et Miss, Paris France

July 2018 Solo Exhibition: The Power of the Click, Cultural Center Castilblanco, Seville Spain

May 2017 Public Radio Interview: 93.3 Beijing International Radio, Beijing China

October 2016 Collective Exhibition: Narcisse Obligé, Savonette Electrique, Montrueil France

October 2015 Collective exhibition: Je Suis..., La Maison des Ensembles, Paris France

December 2014 Solo exhibition: From the Bed to the Lab, Duo Gallery (currently T2 Gallery), Paris France

November 2013 Public Reading: Fiction story: Bitch is a female dog, Berkely Books, Paris France

May 2013 Solo Exhibition: Paris 210 days, The Botek, Paris France

ARTWORK

Artist's CV

Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work from North America to South America, and from Western Europe to Asia. Lala Drona uses painting, video and writing to probe into identity and women’s bodily experience in the context of the digital age, all media combining together to create a surrealistic and dystopian universe. She is currently based in Paris, France.

Artist Statement:

Lala Drona plays with the idea of the mirror and reflectivity, alternate realities, the transitions through these realities and how they manifest in our daily lives. Refusing to choose just one medium, she paints, writes, and creates short films, all which take place in her artistic universe. The voyage from the synthetic to the real, and vice versa, play a significant role within her practice, and she represents these transition with her use of symmetry and grayscale. She re-contextualizes virtual media (stories, digital art, and videos) in reality through paint and canvas, tying everything together to create a cohesive and complex narrative.

PRESS

Lala Drona (b. 1988) is a Venezuelan-American painter and videaste, born in Denver, Colorado. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Lala Drona has since published and exhibited her work from North America to South America, and from Western Europe to Asia. Her paintings, videos, and writing explore the themes of identity, women’s bodily experience, and transitional states, all media contributing to a cohesive universe. She is currently based in Paris, France.

As a multi-media artist, Lala has created The Lala World, a dystopian universe with Artists, Muses, and Drones where inspiration is currency. Lala Drona first established the world on her blog www.basedonafact.com where she writes articles which are based on her life and hyperbolized in order to fit into her world.

EXHIBITIONS

Her passion for storytelling through art started at a very young age, and she believes that she did not learn to make art, but rather lives it. Lala Drona’s work draws from cultural inconsistencies of growing up as a Venezuelan-American woman with a reconstructed left breast due to medical issues at age 15. Due to having a body which does not fit into commonly agreed upon western expectations of "woman," and having to augment that body at an early age in order to fit societal definitions, Lala Drona constantly redefines categories of identity within her work.

Lala Drona held her first solo exhibition “From the Bed to the Lab,” in Paris in December 2014, at Gallery Düo in Paris, France. The following year, she exhibited a triptych of paintings: “Je suis la fin qui justifie les moyens (I am the end that justifies the means)” at the collective exhibition Je suis…, an exhibition in response to the January 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. The triptych recounts a journey of self-rejection and self-acceptance, and marks the beginning of Lala Drona’s use of gray.

In 2016, she exhibited at the collective exhibition “Narcisse Obligé” in Paris, where she showed a painting/mirror installation titled “Every Woman.” This piece, along with her triptych “The Power of the Click” was subsequently shown at and exhibition at Galerie Art et Miss in Paris, in 2018.

Since, Lala Drona has travelled from the Eastern Asia, to Western Europe researching topics regarding transitions from the virtual to the real in various artist residency programs.

Artist Statement:
Lala Drona plays with the idea of the mirror and reflectivity, alternate realities, the transitions through these realities and how they manifest in our daily lives. "[The Internet] serves as a a mirror that reflects humanity in its entirety. However, like in a concave mirror; the image is magnified and hyperbolized. This makes certain aspects of our society more apparent, and with the storage of data, it also makes them quantifiable. The beauty and terror that we find online, are the beauties and terrors we find within ourselves.”

Refusing to choose just one medium, she paints, writes, and creates short films, all which take place in her artistic universe. The voyage from the synthetic to the real, and vice versa, play a significant role within her practice, and she represents these transition with her use of symmetry and grayscale. She re-contextualizes virtual media (stories, digital art, and videos) in reality through paint and canvas, tying everything together to create a cohesive and complex narrative.