Almudena Caminero Art Show in the Freak Bar
Almudena Caminero is a Brooklyn-based visual artist originally from Spain. Heavily influenced by a lifelong passion for storytelling through imagery and her work creating atmospheric spaces for film and television sets, her paintings often feature peculiar characters like carnival workers and performers against unique and moody backdrops that play an equal role in the story at hand. These works — infused with horror, surrealism, and magic realism — are brief glimpses of their subjects in private moments, turning the viewer into a voyeur.
She often works serially, creating groups of paintings that tell a single piece of a larger story. As if flipping through a stranger’s photographs of a single event or observing intimacy out of context through a peephole, viewers are left to imagine the subjects’ lives and complete the overall narrative themselves.
Pieces from one of her recent series After the Carnival is Gone, which focuses on the sideshow performers of Coney Island, have been exhibited at Cargo Project Gallery in Bushwick or the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook. Other frequent subjects include the abnormal anatomies of the Human Body or Characters from Classic Horror literature.
Paintings are on display through May 14th in the Freak Bar, Saturdays and Sundays, Noon - 6pm and during events at Coney Island USA. Art price list here.
Website: www.almudenacaminero.com
Instagram: @almudenaCFpaintings