Raisa Gates / Earthy Pursuits I

Raisa Gates / Earthy Pursuits IRaisa Gates is a Filipina American artist based between Arizona and Paris. Gates artistic narrative is an exploration of the self and our connections woven with others. Turning to the body as her foundation. Her painted figures bare, gathered, resting in one anothers presence seem to inhabit a realm beyond language. Through her work, she extends an invitation to viewers to ponder the nuanced intricacies of human relationships. Her art serves as a

each piece captures the quiet romance of these spaces: the pastel gleam of laminate counters

Turning to the body as her foundation

Her meditative paintings offer a glimpse into a dimension that is suspended between reality and the imagination

And if you can't make it back to Paris

Being a natural fabric

Pictured here in a size medium

and stroke is deliberate

Each work is built from hand-painted fragments of canvas

both inside and out

yet always remained tethered to the delicate handwork that defines her practice

washes of pastels

Each pushed against social barriers in their time