Brianna Caraballo presents, I want to go home
This series reflects the abusive childhood I endured with my first stepfather. As a painter, I am interested in different textures, colors, shapes, and forms. I create my work by spilling paint directly onto the canvas creating a stain and I utilize unconventional materials such as urine, tomato sauce, and cigarette burns. I paint in an abstract style, working with oils and acrylics. This particular style permanently removes the artist's hand which makes it as if the paint is alive and has a mind of its own. My subject matter choices all stem from my past and link to the present. I utilize colors tied to strong emotions that are reflections of my past, and the unpredictable path the paint takes is what I connect to the most. The themes presented throughout my work are trauma and healing. I reunite and record fragments of feelings and memory.

The Other Woman
Acrylic on canvas tarp
11 1/2" x 22"

The back side of The Other Woman

Can't sleep
Acrylic and urine on canvas tarp
26" x 57"

Side shot of Can't sleep

Trapped
Acrylic on canvas tarp
19" x 25"

The backside of Trapped

Suffocating
Cigarette burns and ash on canvas tarp
11" x 23"

Clean it up
Tomato sauce on a cotton bed sheet
22" x 25"
