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Together, the two works feel like the same subject seen in different light, or different moods - a pair that speaks to Cuddemi's central preoccupation with the body as something felt from within rather than observed from without.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flavia-cuddemi\"\u003eBrowse all works by Flavia Cuddemi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53765001576758,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original-2026-03-10T155030.106.jpg?v=1773183064"},{"product_id":"baby-blue","title":"Baby Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is something immediately striking about this piece. Deep cobalt hair frames the face and vibrates against the cool, pale skin. Zhong layers warm and cool tones with great precision, creating a porcelain-like glow that seems to rise from beneath the surface. The composition is cropped tightly, cutting off the chin just enough to create a sense of incompleteness, as if we have caught the figure in the middle of a thought. The single visible eye carries the emotional weight of the painting, tender, slightly melancholic, and quietly distant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/meifen-zhong\"\u003eBrowse all works by Meifen Zhong\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53771380261174,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original-2026-03-12T174102.664.jpg?v=1773362503"},{"product_id":"lost-in-daydream","title":"Lost in Daydream","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgainst a teal ground, a figure lifts her gaze, lips slightly parted, suspended between thoughts. Zhong builds the face through a careful balance of warm blush and cool glazes, creating a smooth, luminous surface that recalls porcelain. The sculptural green hair frames the face, while the quiet expression leaves the feeling of a thought drifting somewhere just out of view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/meifen-zhong\"\u003eBrowse all works by Meifen Zhong\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53771384815926,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/original-2026-03-12T174451.839.jpg?v=1773362729"},{"product_id":"blue-wave","title":"Blue Wave","description":"\u003cp\u003eCuddemi returns again and again to the hand - reaching, holding, almost touching. It is where connection begins and where it is most honestly felt. She gives them space to breathe, setting them against white and letting the gesture speak. Whether two hands drift toward each other across open space or arms intertwine in something between tension and tenderness, the hand carries everything. No faces are needed. In her work, a hand becomes a whole conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/flavia-cuddemi\"\u003eBrowse all works by Flavia Cuddemi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53800147124534,"sku":null,"price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/bluewave_whitewall_c88e4fdb-48a9-404e-9260-7020a8d00d3f.jpg?v=1774003383"},{"product_id":"playa-maya","title":"Playa Maya","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour eye finds this painting from across the room. 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Javiera has lived in Mexico for nearly a decade, and you can feel that landscape here - the density of the vegetation, the charged stillness of a tropical night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/javiera-da-fonseca-ilic\"\u003eBrowse all works by Javiera da Fonseca Ilic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53896858501430,"sku":null,"price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/PlayaMaya_whitewall.jpg?v=1775891040"},{"product_id":"tulum","title":"Tulum","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour eye finds this painting from across the room. Tropical plants move forward into the foreground - agave and palm leaves catching a light that seems to come from nowhere. Behind them, the sky shifts slowly from magenta into deep violet, the paint opening in thin veins like something geological. At the center, a narrow line of turquoise ocean quietly holds everything together. Javiera has lived in Mexico for nearly a decade, and you can feel that landscape here - the density of the vegetation, the charged stillness of a tropical night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/javiera-da-fonseca-ilic\"\u003eBrowse all works by Javiera da Fonseca Ilic\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53896862564662,"sku":null,"price":3900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/Tulum_whitewall.jpg?v=1775891384"},{"product_id":"elliptical-landscape","title":"Elliptical Landscape","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThree layered ellipses rest against a warm cream ground. A luminous white form sits above a band of hand-stained teal silver leaf, and below that, a deep grounding arc of black. The hand-staining gives the silver leaf a quality that is alive and shifting, catching light differently depending on where you stand. There is something geological about this painting, like looking at a cross-section of earth, or something celestial seen from a great distance. The texture of the white upper form is soft but present, built through Koury's layering process until the surface carries its own quiet weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eRebecca Koury is a Carmel-based painter whose work grows from a lifelong fascination with the natural world. She trained first as a sculptor, and that background shows in how she builds a canvas: layer upon layer of acrylic, metal leaf, glazes, and stain, until the surface has genuine depth and texture. Her travels through the American Southwest, Southeast Asia, Canada, and Mexico have left their mark on her practice, drawing in ancient symbols, woven textiles, and the light of the California coast. For Koury, painting is less about depicting nature than inhabiting it. She is after the feeling of a place, not a record of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/rebecca-koury\"\u003eBrowse all works by Rebecca Koury\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art Scout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54055802765622,"sku":null,"price":6225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/3815\/0198\/files\/EllipticalLandscape_whiteroom.jpg?v=1779605804"},{"product_id":"rouge-pour-toujours-i","title":"Rouge Pour Toujours I","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrimson marks sweep across a cool blue-grey ground in looping, gestural strokes that seem to hold both urgency and ease at the same time. The red is not uniform: it shifts from saturated vermillion at its thickest to a lighter, more transparent pink where the paint thins, the canvas texture showing through. Below and to the right, a cluster of loose blue marks offers a quieter counterpoint, more hesitant, more provisional. Yellow and orange fragments surface briefly within the red, like warmth breaking through. The scale of the gesture relative to the canvas makes the marks feel almost calligraphic, as if something is being written or declared. Corcelle works intuitively, and this surface carries the confidence of a painter who has learned to trust what her hand wants to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRed is a color Corcelle commits to with real conviction, not as a symbol or a concept but as something felt: a color that insists on being noticed, that refuses to be neutral. The title Rouge Pour Toujours, Red Forever, says as much directly. In the context of a practice shaped by global travel and by the encounter with diverse visual cultures, this kind of dedication to a color feels like an anchor, something stable at the center of all that movement and curiosity. 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