The Next Generation: Deidy Vicente

Softness and Space

What does it mean to watch the human body gracefully and intentionally melt away to stain the surface of a canvas? To Deidy Vicente, Chiapas, Mexico- based artist and figurative painter, it means simply to witness the refreshing vulnerability and assured state of the female body existing freely and imperfectly as it should, most likely in one of the artist’s own paintings. Vicente’s work goes beyond merely an embrace of candidness and transparency in both subject matter and painting technique. Whether it be pure liquid acrylic paint to fill white gaps of space beyond or velvet-soft, matte-like patches of skin, every mark of the artist’s hand attaches itself to the canvas as a varied, undefined, and raw example of the human condition, and Deidy Vicente is not one to shy away from its messiness.

Part One: Who is Deidy Vicente?

Question #2: Who are you are you as an artist?

Like an artist I’m a creator of pictures, I am always feeling, observing my surroundings and doing it in my paintings

Question #3: What kind of journey are you on?

The most recent series I have worked on in painting is called “figurando lo feminino”; It is a series in which through my painting I seek to express the identity of the body from my own vision as a woman in which I reflect on the values and meanings that the female nude has and speak of the body from a feminine vision. The pictorial exploration that I do in this series is to represents the female naked body as something imperfect, human, which is vulnerable and which is a space that is intimately linked to emotions.

Question #7: What is something strange or interesting you keep in the studio/workspace?

A lot of books about everything.

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Part Two: Under Construction

Please describe your work and practice as best you can:

In my process I like to combine drawing and painting techniques, as well as the acrylic, charcoal and oil technique. At the beginning of a painting I draw brush strokes with acrylic, very diluted that look like watercolor, then I draw on those spots with charcoal, at the end I continue with more layers of acrylic and sometimes oil. In the whole process I give myself a lot of freedom to paint, I am not careful with the stains and I do not pretend that it is perfect, that is why my paintings have an impression of not being finished, and I like that because it can imply that it is an image that it never ends, it is always under construction.

Where/ How can Vacant Museum viewers see more of your work and where can they purchase it?

On my facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Art-Dei-102665781179261/about/ On instagram: @deidyyosed https://deidyyosed.wixsite.com/artdei