Deborah Oropallo
Originally trained as a painter, Deborah Oropallo’s time in Silicon Valley inspired her to expand her definition of the medium. She incorporates mixed media techniques, including photomontage, video, computer editing, and printmaking, into her practice. Her work largely centers around protests, global movements, mainstream news, advertisement, and the power of technology for better and worse. She also utilizes sculpture as a medium, playing with materials like bone, Snow White costumes, and porcelain boots to create fantastical and haunting images. Her work can be seen in the Schneider Museum of Art from April 19th to May 25th in our spring exhibition Moving Pictures. The Opening Reception will be on Thursday, April 18th from 5-7 pm. Stop by to meet the artist and delve into work that bridges the gap between the sensational and empathetic.
https://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/deborah-oropallo
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Deborah Oropallo, Deluge, 2018, photomontage, pigment print, paint on paper. Courtesy of the artist
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Protest Photography
NPR interviews Devin Allen, a photographer whose pictures of Black Lives Matter protests made it to the cover of Time Magazine. For Allen, photography became a tool against the things he saw wrong in the US: “I lived in this kind of false world where, like, 'this is it — I can't change anything.' ... But, when I started to unpack those things, I became an artist, and the art form gave me my voice. I started understanding that I do have a platform to make change.” With his hometown of Baltimore being the site of many protests against police brutality, Allen’s work captures the trauma, hurt, and hope of the fight for justice. Artist Deborah Oropallo uses images from protests to create her more recent “paintings”. She makes images from the same protest translucent, and then layers them on top of one another to create the illusion of depth and movement in an otherwise two dimensional medium. Learn more about Devin Allen and the role of photography in social justice movements, and see Oropallo’s work on show in all galleries of the Schneider Museum of Art.
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/01/16/1139546697/devin-allen-against-poverty-racism-discrimination
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Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, One World, 2021, run time: 6:00 minutes, 35 screen video with 2 channel sound, custom 3.5 x 6 inch monitors. Courtesy of the artist.
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Soundtracks
The presence of music in films dates back to the beginning of film history. Silent films used music to cue in audiences on tone and emotional subtext. This practice has continued to today, with most blockbusters curating a soundtrack that seamlessly guides viewers through the story of the film. From rom coms to historical documentaries, the entanglement of sound and emotion is as present as ever in the film industry. Sound designer Andy Rappaport worked with artist Deborah Oropallo for multiple video projects on display at the Schneider Museum of Art as part of Moving Pictures. Rappaport’s scoring creates a continuous feeling of unease and discomfort in the same way a horror film lets you know a jump scare is coming. But with Oropallo and Rappaport’s work, it continues on with no release of tension, eerie and infinite. Learn more about soundtracks and their effect on a story with the link below, and watch Oropallo and Rappaport’s haunting collaborations in the Entry and Treehaven Galleries.
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