Mersuka DOPAZO

BIOGRAPHY

A mother of six, Spanish artist Mersuka Dopazo makes monumental fabric collage paintings in vibrant colors. She began working in textiles after a trip to Benares, India, where she was inspired by women washing their saris in the river and laying them out to dry. She returns regularly to India to teach schoolchildren art, and has incorporated 1950s-era drawings from local kids into her works, like little Easter eggs hidden within the larger tableaux. She now lives and works in Bali, Indonesia.

 

TECHNIQUE

Often densely patterned, the papers and fabrics are juxtaposed with gestural line, pigment and areas of gessoed white canvas; the collages exploring the balance of colour and the relationship between positive and negative space. Unexpected connections form between clashing textures and motifs and between the regularity of pattern and the spontaneity of broken graphite and improvised colour. Dopazo’s works have been exhibited extensively in the UK, the USA, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and Europe.

 

ARTWORKS
Mersuka DOPAZO

Five Souls, 2022

Mixed media on canvas

205 x 165 cm
80.7 x 65 in

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Juntos, 2021-2022

Mixed media on canvas

256 x 211 cm
100.8 x 83 in

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Vida, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

217 x 316 cm
85.5 x 124.5 in

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Felipe, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

217 x 186 cm
85.5 x 73 in

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Mama, Rita and ME, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

216 x 316 cm
85 x 124.5 in

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Watering the Life, 2023

Painted collage on canvas

210 x 204 cm
82.7 x 80.5 in

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Play date, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

177 x 202 cm
69.7 x 79.5 in

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Las Amigas De Mi Madre, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

215 x 213 cm
84.6 x 84 in

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School of Love, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

210 x 310 cm
82.7 x 122 in

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Ibu Oka, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

120 x 100 cm
47 x 39.5 in

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Pink Tea Pot, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

106 x 106 cm
42 x 42 in

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La Banda del Garaje, 2023

Collage paint on canvas

247 x 210 cm
97.3 x 82.7 in

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