Adriana Varejão

Folds 2 . 2003

+ Adriana Varejão

Adriana Varejão has an idiosyncratic motif: tiles and gore. Since she made a name for herself in the 1990s, her works, which fuse painting with sculpture, have mined ceramics' chequered past. Using oil paint, plaster and polyurethane, she imitates the blue-and-white azulejos tiles that Portuguese colonialists brought to her native Brazil, as well as the plain white tiles of saunas and butcher shops. Sometimes these are supersize, with fake antique surfaces of cracked white.
Skye Sherwin . The Guardian

Adriana Varejão . Santa Cruz jerked-beef ruin (corner) . 2002