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  The oil paintings of Bri Cirel combine bold text, graphic design, and hyper-realistic imagery sourced from commercial culture and art history.

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  Through a multi-stage method involving masking, painting, peeling, and layering, Cirel's sharp designs choreograph dynamic interactions between text and imagery.

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  Utilizing not only the font's shape to contain or dissect subjects, Cirel also leverages the word's semantic nuances to interrogate gender politics and critique conditioned perception about women's role in the art world. 

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