I finally found time to upload my works from my solo painting exhibition entitled "Resurgence," which ran from December 1 to 16 last year. The exhibit statement of which can be read below. Here's to wishing everyone an even more productive and art-filled 2013. Cheers!

"Human experiences often overwhelm us like the night obscuring the light of the soul. In the exhibit of Katrina Pallon, women posed in equanimity are set against stark colors of flora. Ephemeral emotions shine through the backdrop of flowers that frame women's bodies and gazes that display mostly nonchalance, perhaps referencing how the artist had dealt with life during her trying times.

Katrina Pallon's dream-like images draw from the melancholy of the past and a contemporary Pan-Asian style to rise above these emotions that have long beset her. Albert Goldbarth once articulated that "The night may be long but it passes, marking the transitory nature of pain."

The artworks reference the grief that one normally feels after a breakdown - contained in its two-dimensional form, yet transcending the affective reach with its sensation of vivid colors and fluid lines - like the crimson stirring in one's sorrow. These are some of the emotions that overwhelmed the artist when her grandfather passed away. One's sense of loss upon the death of a loved one, melancholia, and acceptance through time are thus embodied in her artworks. Affect that is otherwise grim and dreary, is instead converted to beauty that arrests the viewer's sensorium of images. The paintings radiate a psychedelic feel that immerses us in a labyrinth of sensations that leads us into the artist's embodied thoughts and feelings, where some are sporadic and spontaneous as her world is. One can therefore learn to embrace the impermanence that surrounds us as we transcend our interstitial states of being. Within the endless dialectic of thought and emotion, the exhibit offers a glimpse of the artist's soul, her path to recovery and rediscovery, as she tries to build her life again. Indeed, the resurgence of one's self."

(Words by curator Kevin Tabora)

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