Abstract painting by James Cabaniuk in pink and with heart motifs and bottoms

Colour and humour are in all the work. Pumps celebrates the bottom girlies. High heels and kissing butt cheeks frolicking over a mass of internal bodily pink.

There is a recurring motif of tears and hearts in the work which are a metric for how sad or happy the anecdotes in each painting are. Sometimes they morph in to each other and into other things.

The layering is part archeological archive, part tool of queer opacity. The layers are a barrier of choice to choose who to tell the stories to. The forms are clear but obscured, blatant but only when you have the map key (it's usually a bum hole). Each layer is an edit or correction from the next. The paintings get painted over when the anecdote has lost its relevancy in terms of the journey of making the work. A bit like when you come back from holiday and it's really fun to say what happened and after a while you feel like you're just repeating the story and it looses it's fun.

crop of b chehayeb's painting 'jncos at the quinceanera' a large red abstract painting 

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installation images of 'and in and out of weeks' at Workplace | London by Tom Carter

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