Sebastian Ore Blas' ( b.2002 , Lima, Peru ) body of work draws from the historical tradition of oil painting and familiar conviviality referents to create intimate artwork that explores the identity behind memories and the constant interplay between objects, space, and self - All interwoven with the essence of queer intimacy in shared experiences. - The work attempts to let memory out of its cage of reason and fact and to translate it into a language that has never struggled with impermanence, which is painting.

Tender moments of gregariousness are all figurative subjects that dominate the work. Jumping between traditionally rendered objects derivative from photographic references and more pictorial-style figures, the paintings explore themes of intimacy, and memory from different perspectives. The paintings are born from attempts to understand our relationship to the ephemeral through tender images.

The suspension of belief that takes place when we make sense of our memories is a central theme of his work. The creation of these table settings involves an assembly of details from various moments past lived -all in one solid composition- using color and pattern to unify the digressions in perspective and scale that naturally come from this manufacture.

The compositional fragmentation is used to craft new objects from pre-existing moments and objects, each with its unique, malleable atmosphere, posing questions about the metaphysical ownership and identity of the act of remembrance and how it intersects with ourselves, our spaces, and objects.

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Solo Exhibitions

2024

Then we do everything else, mtn space gallery, Lake Worth, FL.

To kiss a flower good morning, REVERB Gallery, Tampa, FL

Group Exhibitions

2024

Skyway, 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

take what you need, Carolyn Wilson Gallery, Tampa,FL

Depicted, Galería Cholo Terco, Lima, Peru

2023

Good Taste, The Hive , St. Petersburg, FL

34th Annual University Student Exhibition Atlantic Center for the Arts, Smyrna Beach, FL

Socks all over the floor, Carolyn Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL

2022

Predictions of a Memory, Carolyn Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL

Education

2024

BFA, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Press

2024 Rosales, Marce, Colores y Convivencia, Revista Caretas

2024 Duffy, Abigail, Slice of Life on View at Mtn Space, Palm Beach Illustrated 2021

2022, Ravello, Daniella, Retrato Onirico, Revista Cocktail