Dorielle Caimi is an Hispanic painter whose family has lived in New Mexico for fifteen generations. Her large-scale figurative work highlights the strength and complexity of the female form through a careful and methodical deglamorization of her subjects. Caimi’s rendering of flesh is stunning, creating the immediate illusion of soft, pliable skin. Her figures convey a range of emotions through expression and pose, representing inner joys, anxieties, struggles, and triumphs. Relying on imagery and references immediately recognizable from popular culture, Babe in the Woods includes references to stickers and emojis, our modern shorthand for emotional expression. The figure stands lost and vulnerable amidst the expressions of social media, a phenomenon our modern culture is struggling to navigate.
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Caimi received her BFA in painting from the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, in 2010.
Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally, and in publications such as PoetsArtists (cover, twice), Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, American Art Collector, Hi-Fructose, Art LTD, Combustus, Juxtapoz, and Printer's Devil Review (cover). In 2015 she was awarded by Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Franklin Sirmans the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award for work that "visually responds to painting in the 21st century." Caimi’s paintings have been acquired by the Miami University Permanent Art Collection, The Tullman Collection, The Kelsey Lee-Offield Collection, and The Art of Elysium Charity Auction.
Babe in the Woods was featured in the inaugural exhibition of Rising Voices: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art and The Pittsburgh Foundation.