Is it possible to make “art for art’s sake” as an artist of colour?

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Gabriella Sanchez’s vivacious paintings embody the linear space between art and graphic design. Bold, graphic typography is painted onto the canvas with the skill of a sign painter, overlapped with evocative images to raise questions around cultural identity. In her own words, the artist tells It’s Nice That, “my work uses coded visual language to build composite portraits of a life lived in between cultures, and of art made in between cultures”.

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