Adriana Talhouk's spirited paintings combine aesthetic styles such as primitivism and abstraction, plus a savvy cultural awareness replete with pop-culture references. She experiments with textures and spatial dimension, mixing brisk, painterly brushstrokes with appropriated cultural images, filling a moon or sun with familiar, domestic patterns or presenting flower petals that tower over miniature children. There is an anarchic will in these impressive works--a playful, or ludic, philosophy which makes its way into Adriana’s work in the form of bright explorations of color and experiments in composition.

Yet Adriana is also a natural organizer of items, whether her abstract shapes or found images. At times she uses color as an exuberant spray, and at others she manipulates it as if it were solid cutouts to be arranged on the canvas. There is a tension in her works between anarchy and order, the desire to play and the need for the satisfactions of visual structure. This dialectic in Adriana Talhouk's work yields paintings of refreshing originality.