For Climaco, artistic inspiration is found no further than the vagaries, tedium and occasional pleasures of daily life. An astute observer, she thrives in the city, finding content not only in personal experience but unavoidable intimacies with strangers. She describes her artworks as “small-scale love stories,” although her tales end complexly in hope and despair, elation and misery. Like real life, they have complex endings.

The conflicts are underscored through Climaco’s ironic combination of simple, direct forms with extravagant materials. Porcelain cigarette cases and a golden song lyric with diamond punctuation demonstrate her affection for the bittersweet. From the good-natured yet abject daisy chains of laundry depicted in vividly colored cartoons on the gallery walls to the quizzical beagle poised at the tip of a diving board, Climaco’s work represents a fusion of longing and reality and, as she says, “idealism tempered with escapism.” Focused on the restless self and how its innermost and outer conditions and relationships affect it, the works on display seem the embodiment of anxious thought.

Climaco uses humor and surface charm to probe seriously into the human condition, exploring the precipitous and pregnant spaces between opposing impulses and drives. Although she offers no answers, she shapes wryly poetic questions.

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