Assimetric Tension
by Lilia Fontana

Rosario Rivera-Bond’s works break through revivals and neo post isms. Rivera-Bond’s paintings propose highly deformed entities that break through phantasmagoric spaces and contrasting bright colors spots in crescent scrawling shapes and forms. Abstract landscapes intertwine with shocking images of dislocated faces and contorted bodies blowing away order and composition. Asymmetry creates a tension in between figural images and abstracts forms. Burnished surfaces of streaking color residue of drippings and stains create a pictorial field stormed by multiple splashes like explosions. Rivera-Bond manipulates the surface through a process of dissolving the shapes and reshaping them onto pure marks of varied density and transparency. Her characters and objects- that relate to social and cultural issues- function as signals not as simple referents; they deconstruct feminist cultural stereotypes and social status iconographies, hidden by the parodic and the burlesque.