Mindy Shapero (b. 1974)

Los Angeles-based artist Mindy Shapero fuses mythology and spirituality into her works. Creating vibrant and mesmerizing narratives, she transports the viewer into a fantastical and dynamic world. In The one eye that saw everything before it was sent to the circle traps, it rotates in order to maintain all secrets but once it stops they begin to slip out, hypnotic circles of silver-leaf decrease in size from the outer edge and culminate at the centre, guiding the viewer’s attention to a single ‘all-seeing’ eye. Set against a green background, Shapero imbues her work with an array of vivid colours at the centre of the composition, while the silver-leaf vortex floats atop. This visually intensive work is characteristic of the postmodern tradition of assemblage and of Shapero’s surreal designs of an alternative universe.