PINK: Breast Cancer Awareness

PINK: Breast Cancer Awareness

Curina salutes unruly women everywhere! This collection is inspired by women who defy control, from social constructs, from beauty norms, and even cancer.

20% of proceeds from artwork in this collection will be donated to P.ink, a non-profit organization empowering women to take back their bodies after mastectomies by providing tattoos at no cost.

The artwork 'Gate Valve' by Troy Medinis features bold geometric shapes with vibrant hot pink triangles against a weathered gray background. Abstract blue accents and textural elements created with molding paste add dimensional depth. The contemporary piece combines sharp angular forms with expressive brushwork in acrylic and spray paint on panel.

The artwork 'Gate Valve' by Troy Medinis features an abstract geometric composition with vibrant neon pink borders contrasting against a textured gray background. Two bright blue circular shapes resembling stars or flowers appear as eyes, creating a minimalist face-like structure. Created with acrylic and spray paint, the piece showcases bold color blocking and rough textures achieved through molding paste on panel.

Troy Medinis

Gate Valve

The artwork 'Dos Florecitas' by Juan Arango Palacios features two vibrant pink flowers with rhinestone-embellished centers against a deep navy and magenta background. The flowers are painted in bold, flowing brushstrokes, creating a modern abstract interpretation with dynamic movement and textural contrast. The oil painting incorporates sparklingrhinestone details, blending traditional and contemporary elements.

Juan Arango Palacios

Dos Florecitas

Troy Medinis

Troy Medinis

A video and book artist-turned-painter, Troy still hasn't lost the wonder of new materials like toys, molding paste, and most recently flower-patterned plastic bags. Rather than playing fixed roles in a prefabricated play, his works together explore a constellation of loosely related sentiments like serious absurdity, the ineffable scale of cosmic time, surveyor marks, and rat traps around New York. These moments when existential issues suddenly intrude into everyday life or vice versa are most pronounced in the contrast between the digital hot pink he frequents and the scratched, worn out textures like peeled subway ads that accompany it.
Juan Arango Palacios

Floating from Colombia, Texas, and now Chicago, Juan creates their own mythologies from narratives they encountered in these places - from cowboys in popular culture to the jungle that remains fond in their childhood memory. When placed in an alien setting like the jungle, cowboys no longer have the macho, confident air but look like tragic heroes and the clash between soccer players become more erotic than violent.