Dionisio Ceballos, whose latest body of work is currently on display at Hot Mango Pickle gallery in Palo Alto, was born and educated in Mexico City. Although he holds a degree in communications, and his business card reads “filmmaker,” Ceballos is a self-taught artist, pursuing a variety of subjects and ideas, following his own changing interests and trying his brushes in a range of styles. “The choice of the nudes is not only to observe the beauty of ‘imperfection’ we all carry by having a body, but… to unveil the vulnerability of our nature,” said Ceballos in his Artist’s Statement at the opening on Friday. For his five-work show, the artist used a single female model, whose skin- and hair color changes from one canvas to another, while she is surrounded by the “tedious” everyday objects, and accompanied by a serpent—“Kundalini Shakti—the divine energy that rises through our column.” Ceballos’s characteristic deserted landscape and overhanging, curtain-like sky lands his paintings a quality of spatial meditations on the prevalence of femininity over the constraints of the ordinary. In the past, besides painting portraits, landscapes, and abstracts, Ceballos produced illustrations, and various commissions, including reproductions of Frida Kahlo’s works for the Miramax Film, “Frida,” starring Salma Hayek. The artist remembers the gig as a challenging yet satisfying experience, while working under pressure to recreate 20 Kahlo’s pieces in a course of three weeks to Ms. Hayek’s and other featured actors’ satisfaction with their own image representation. To learn more about the artist, visit http://www.dionisio.com.mx/ and http://www.bluemonkproductions.com/ His “American Women” show will be on display through July 1 at Hot Mango Pickle gallery, located at 539 Bryant St., Palo Alto. 650-324-2577. http://www.hotmangopickle.com/
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