Purple Riders, 2025
Painting : oil · 80 x 80 x 4 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch · Ready to hang
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About the artwork
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang
with stretcher frame
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80 x 80 x 4 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
A majestic lion dominates the vibrant “Purple Riders". Its golden mane frames a powerful roar. The creature carries a surreal skin. Floral patterns bloom across its flank in a display of Rococo abundance. Purple monkeys cling to the beast. They ride its back and flank its sides with playful energy. This scene unfolds within a dense, dreamlike forest. Lush greenery and scattered blossoms create a sense of exotic mystery.
Augustina Droze Eastern and Western sensibilities. She transforms the animal kingdom into a symbolic stage. Here, nature becomes a modern mythology. The contrast between the lion's strength and the monkeys' agility suggests a complex social hierarchy. Vivid colors saturate the canvas. The light filters through a soft, hazy sky. Every brushstroke emphasizes a world that is simultaneously beautiful and bewildering. This artwork explores themes of motherhood and displacement through a fantastical lens. The composition balances tension with harmony. The gaze is drawn to the intricate floral details covering the lion's hide.
The contemporary artist Augustina Droze uses animals as symbols to describe her personal lived experiences. Her current body of work explores her life as a foreigner, her gaze upon the world as exotic, beautiful and bewildering. As an expat living in Beijing for the past ten years and currently in Barcelona, Droze's work incorporates elements of East and West. Her swirling, dream-like paintings are colourful and confrontational, brimming with Rococo inspired abundance. She creates her own modern mythology, a storybook land where she is the other in a very other worldly landscape. Droze has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally in numerous shows, notably the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York (2014), Banaras Hindu University as Fulbright Senior Scholar, Varanasi, India (2017), the Beijing US Embassy as Distinguished Art Envoy (2022), London Biennale (2023), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2024) and Carrousel du Louvre (2025).
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The American artist Augustina Droze (b. 1981) employs animals as symbolic narrators of her personal experience. Her work reflects life as a foreigner and mother, framing the world as at once exotic, beautiful, and bewildering. Based in Beijing for the past decade, she fuses Eastern and Western elements into vibrant paintings and installations marked by Rococo-inspired abundance. These immersive works form a modern mythology—dreamlike landscapes alive with symbolism and contradiction.
Droze's art has been exhibited widely, including the Castellani Art Museum (2014), Banaras Hindu University as a Fulbright Senior Scholar (2017), the U.S. Embassy Beijing American Center as a Distinguished Artist Envoy (2022), the London Biennale (2023), the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2024), and the Carrousel du Louvre (2025). In addition to her studio practice, she has completed major public art projects worldwide, with commissions from Forbes Company, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Tucson Pima Arts Council, and Nagpur International Airport, among others.
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