“Unhappily Ever After”

In her first solo exhibition at the Secret Fresh, Unhappily Ever After, De Guia visually interprets some of her favored fairy tale stories some she focuses on unfamiliar plots--in her bespoke visual style. She also confidently tweaks some glaring facts twisting their narratives or the what- could-have-beens of these child-like tales in tempered palette as taboo thoughts explodes while viewing the fresh language in these paintings in a coming out artistic party not for the faint hearted.

In the end, we learn inherent values from these fairly tales to socially adopt in real life yet in De Guia’s case it armed her to ride on the familiar to paint the unfamiliar with surprising prowess. Setting herself up as a blatant realist with a bravura for assigning elements that appeal to our senses, De Guia’s strength is she is versed in the profound merging of her take on the fairly tales where significant timing with being decorative meet. As De Guia is welcomed by a lavishly crass art market, with her brushes on her heart, she offers alternative framed parables. And as she is starting to retell her own not once-upon-a-times by painting one after the other, she has only just begun.


Written by:
Jay Bautista