{"id":35559,"date":"2020-02-25T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=35559"},"modified":"2020-02-25T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:53:56","slug":"iruka-toro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/25\/iruka-toro\/","title":{"rendered":"iruka toro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/25\/iruka-toro\/iruka_toro\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35561\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iruka_toro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iruka_toro.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/iruka_toro-100x1024.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*Gasp*<\/em> I already loved these oil paintings so much, and then I saw the photos of the work installed and, yes, my heart skipped a beat&#8230; the scale, the beautiful altars on the floor, all of it! And those &#8216;in studio&#8217; images are breathtaking. This is the most recent work by Puerto Rico-born, New York-based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacaprojects.com\/artists\/iruka-maria-toro\">Iruka Toro<\/a>. This show <em>just<\/em> came down from the walls of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacaprojects.com\/\">LaCa Projects<\/a> in Charlotte North Carolina, but these are their words about <em>&#8220;THE IRUKA ELVIS SPELL&#8221;<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Transcendence. Transformation. Surrender. In her third solo exhibition at LaCa Projects, these themes are evident in Iruka Maria Toro&#8217;s new body of work, which offers deeply personal insights into her recent name change and the evolution of her work in tandem with a constant exploration of her spiritual identity. Through a system of complex but connected clues into deeply-rooted belief systems, Toro invites viewers inside her world, with references to the tarot, magic, prayer, ritual, femininity, and medicinal practices. As if painting with a technicolor lens, Toro makes visible hidden spiritual dimensions through intense, color-saturated works, intimate and careful dissections of living flora, and juxtapositions revealing a unique and important relationship,\u00a0echoing her steadfast reverence to the natural environment and its undeniable connection to humankind.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Gasp* I already loved these oil paintings so much, and then I saw the photos of the work installed and, yes, my heart skipped a beat&#8230; the scale, the beautiful altars on the floor, all of it! And those &#8216;in studio&#8217; images are breathtaking. This is the most recent work by Puerto Rico-born, New York-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,285,6,7,185],"tags":[913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35583,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35559\/revisions\/35583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}