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CABELL MOLINA

Painter 

Collage Artist

Cabell Molina Art

For Immediate Release:

 

THE POWER OF HER

 

“Molina reclaims classic femininity as multi-faceted, giving voice and texture to lost imagery. Molina’s large scale pieces tug in a way only the past can, while also pushing for colorful expansion of a “woman’s place”. Her work is as layered thematically as it is physically, both celebrating the bygone glamour of mid-century fashion and deconstructing its patriarchal underpinnings. Her works read as meditations on feminism, full of colorful clutter and layered sense of time, space, and memory. This body of work is also influenced by her background as an advertising art director using her skills in branding and photo manipulation––but now her goal now is to sell perspective rather than product.” 

Cabell Molina is an American contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Her work explores and deconstructs the patriarchal ideas tied into mid-20th century fashion and advertising imagery. Being raised by a mother of the 1950’s who attempted to cement her traditional ideology into Cabell at a young age, she developed a fascination with the female experience as portrayed by women of mid century Americana. Were the women of the 1950’s openly cognizant of their oppression? Was femininity created by men and adopted by women to imitate male societal needs. She attempts to present an optimistic vision of rebellion and social progress. Cabell’s subjects in her work often come from ads in vintage Life magazines in where she re-appropriates images of women and changes the narrative to portray them as the powerful gender.

 

Her technique is to “deconstruct and reconstruct.” The process begins with collecting clippings of vintage magazines and books, ribbon, old photographs, coins, handmade papers, wallpaper, beads and buttons, just to name a few of the elements. She then hand paints background collage with acrylics, spray paint, and oil pastels and adds gold and silver leaf. When all of the elements are complete, Cabell assembles everything onto canvases and or wood panels then after adding more layers she finishes the pieces with several coats of varnish.

 

Formerly an advertising art director, Cabell worked for multinational advertising agencies in cities all over the world. She studied graphic design, art direction and fine art at San Diego State University and Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. She uses her background in advertising, photo manipulation and design to create her large scale art pieces.

 

Cabell’s work has been in shows and private collections around the world. Two of her pieces were recently featured in CNN Style and New York Times The Cut. She creates commissioned conceptual portraits for clients as well.

 

RECENT PRESS | EXHIBITIONS

 

2015 Xpozure Gallery, CT

2015/16 Gallery Room 112, CT

2016/18 Love Art Gallery and Studio. CT

2016 Four page Feature editorial The Beat magazine, CT

2016 Saatchi Art’s Curators pick “Up and coming pop artists”, international

2016 Celebrity painting/collages for Discovery Channel reality show: Project Dad

2017 Gallery Americana’s, CT, feature artist

2017 The Untitled Space gallery, She Inspires, NYC

2017 The Untitled Space Gallery, Secret Garden, NYC

2017 Group editorial New York Times Magazine, The CUT/Untitled Space gallery, NYC, cover piece

2017 Aqua Art Miami 

2018 Vogue Magazine, Untitled Space Gallery, How Could I Have Known, mixed media on canvas

2018 CNN Style, Untitled Space Gallery, How Could I Have Known, mixed media on canvas

2018 Girl Talk HQ, One Year of Resistance, How Could I Have Known, mixed media on canvas

2018 Art Fuse Magazine, One Year of Resistance, How Could I Have Known, mixed media on canvas

2018 The Art Gorgeous, One Year of Resistance, How Could I Have Known, mixed media on canvas

2018 Interview Magazine, One Year of Resistance, How Could I Have Known, mixed media on canvas

2018 Ceres Gallery, Group Show, Don’t Shut Up, NYC

2018 Milford Arts Center, CT, Group show

2018 Sidewalk Gallery, CT solo show

2018 Norwalk Hour, front page editorial

2018 Art and Sound Gallery, Greenwich CT, Group Show “Ferraris”

2018 Art and Sound Gallery, Greenwich CT, Group Show “It’s only Rock and Roll”

2018 Miami Art Week, Aqua, Helix Gallery

2019 Artbox Project, Zurich, Group show Finalist for Once Upon a Time

2019 Solo Exhibition Newton Roux Gallery, Westport CT

2019 Superfine! Art Fair, Untitled Space gallery, NYC

2019 Denizen Gallery, New Paltz, solo show

2019 Aqua Art Miami, duo show, “Woman”

2020 Dacia Gallery duo show, Be Longing

2020 Untitled Space Group show/auction, Art4Equality

2020 White Room Gallery, Hamptons Artist of the Month - April 

2020 Art Mag, Charleston SC, feature "Women in the Arts"

2020 Morton Contemporary, Group show, PA

2020 CParker Gallery, Group show, Greenwich CT

2021 The White Room Gallery Snapshot, Group show Bridgehampton

2021 The White Room Gallery, Art+Design Hamptons

2022 C Parker Gallery, Solo Show That's How She Does It, Greenwich CT

2022 Morton Contemporary, Duo Show, It's Getting Hot In Here, Philly PA

2022 Aqua Art Miami, trio show 

2022 See Me Group Show, NYC

2023 Mash Gallery, In Her Element, Group show, Los Angeles 

2023 Selected work for Virgin Hotel, NYC

2023 Group Show, Western, Courtney Collins Fine Art, Big Sky MT

2023 Group show, Colorful Interpretations, White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton NY

2024 Group Show Artful Alchemy, Mash Gallery, West hollywood

2024 Create Magazine feature, Woman's issue

2024 Naughty or Nice, Group Show, White Room Gallery, East Hampton

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