REFLECTIONS

EXHIBITION
November 10, 2022, SPECTA GALERIA, Mexico

Krytzia Dabdoub is a Mexican artist whose artistic career has spanned several cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Caracas, Mexico City, New York and San Francisco have inspired her to create art with a conscience. Krytzia continually questions the relationship with the environment and between human beings and confronts the lack of commitment to the important issues of our times such as climate change, ecology and human rights.

Through her huge canvases, Krytzia transmits her energy, she says "It's like a meditation for me. I let myself be carried away by the canvas, by the moment. I paint what I feel."

In this exhibition, "REFLECTIONS" talks about how in English this word has a double meaning: REFLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. The first by the reflections on the Seine of the colors of the vibrant Paris that unfolds in front of her eyes in her studio. The second by the reflections she makes on the human being and his situation of marginality. Men of all nationalities and ethnicities pass by her window, blurred in the water and blending into each other, now part of a whole. They all contribute to the light, to the color of the canvas. That is why she does not choose the colors when she paints, she does not discriminate them, but takes them at random and builds her canvases enriching them with different materials such as pigments, acrylics, oil pastels... but also sands, ashes, etc. When painting, his reflections revolve around identity, diversity, inclusion... She puts herself in the other's shoes, questions discrimination, bullying, segregation, oppression, terrorism, violence, etc. and transforms them into a canvas of understanding, harmony, empathy and respect.

” As artists we have the means and the responsibility to express these issues and expose them to the light."

Krytzia
Dabdoub

Born in Mexico City in 1970, Krytzia began painting at an early age.
In 1989 she went to Paris and attended the Atelier de Sévres and in 1990 she moved to Met de Peninghen, ESAG, where artists such as Matisse, Duchamp and Rauschemberg, to name a few, attended.
In 1992 she moved to Madrid where she painted in the studio of contemporary artist and teacher Manolo Arjona, who became a great influence on her.
In 1994 she lived in Barcelona where she attended the CEV (Centro de Estudios de Vídeo e Imagen) to study creative photography.
In 1997 she lives in Caracas, Venezuela and paints with the artist Gladys Medina and participates in several group exhibitions. She meets several Venezuelan artists and paints with Clelia Benitez, Betti Brillenbourg, Carolina Vollmer, Ana Luisa Rossemberg and invites the artist Adrian Pujol to Mexico to paint the landscape and learns his technique.
In 2005 she moved back to Paris where she studied Art History at Christie's Education and the Ecole du Louvre and painted at the Atelier du Carrousel where she learned the watercolor technique from the artist Sophie Rousseau.
In 2010 she moved to New York and attended workshops at the Art Students League with Elizabeth Allison.
And in 2016 she settles in San Francisco where she paints in Studio 7 at the Peninsula Museum of Art.

Krytzia's work reflects what unfolds in front of her eyes in her studio. Men and women of all nationalities and ethnicities pass by her window, they blur in the reflection of the water and blend into each other, now they are part of a whole. They all contribute to the light, to the color of the canvas. That is why she does not choose the colors when painting, she does not discriminate them, but integrates them randomly and builds her canvases enriching them with different materials such as pigments, acrylics, oil pastels... but also sands, ashes, etc.

When painting, her reflections revolve around identity, diversity, inclusion... She puts herself in the other's shoes, questions discrimination, bullying, segregation, oppression, terrorism, violence, etc. and transforms it into a canvas of understanding, harmony, empathy and respect for all human beings and the environment.