Inner Gardens: JOMAD & Tiffany Alfonseca
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Contemporary Figurative Painting at OOA Gallery, Barcelona
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Overview
A Fresh Perspective on Contemporary Figuration
Inner Gardens is a contemporary art exhibition at OOA Gallery in Barcelona featuring JOMAD and Tiffany Alfonseca. Bringing together two compelling voices in contemporary figurative painting, the exhibition highlights works shaped by portraiture, symbolism, color, and cultural memory. From immersive floral environments to richly layered representations of Afro-diasporic identity, Inner Gardens offers a fresh perspective on figuration today.Inner Gardens stages a dialogue between two distinct approaches to contemporary figuration. JOMAD and Tiffany Alfonseca both place the human figure within dense, immersive worlds, yet the meaning of those spaces unfolds in different and highly resonant ways.In JOMAD’s work, the surrounding environment becomes an interior landscape. Born in Martinique, the artist has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, ceramics, and public art, informed by studies in visual arts, architecture, and design. This structural sensibility gives her work a strong sense of composition, rhythm, and spatial balance. Her paintings are inhabited by introspective figures who emerge from lush floral and botanical fields charged with emotion and symbolic intensity.These settings are not decorative backdrops. They function as psychological spaces where memory, resilience, and transformation take visual form. Through layered color, repetition, and scale, JOMAD creates paintings that feel both intimate and monumental. Her ceramic works extend this language further, introducing hand-shaped surfaces and bold graphic motifs that suggest concealment, protection, and acts of reclamation. Across media, her practice constructs spaces that invite contemplation while holding a powerful visual presence.brings another vital energy to the exhibition. The Dominican-American artist is known for vibrant mixed-media paintings that celebrate Afro-diasporic identity with nuance, strength, and tenderness. Her portraits center Black and Afro-Latin subjects within richly textured environments where pattern, surface, and color become inseparable from the emotional life of the figure.Alfonseca’s work is grounded in lived experience and personal heritage, yet it speaks to broader questions of family, womanhood, belonging, and cultural visibility. Her compositions reject reductive narratives, offering instead expansive images of dignity, beauty, and self-possession. Saturated hues, layered textures, and ornamental detail give her paintings immediate visual force, while their emotional depth sustains a lasting impact.Exhibition Details
- Dates: April 25 – May 31, 2026
- Location: OOA Gallery, Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain
- Inquiries: Prices & availability on request
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Works from €350 — up to €9,000.
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Worldwide shipping available. Packed and insured.Bringing JOMAD and Tiffany Alfonseca together reveals a compelling tension between interiority and visibility, contemplation and affirmation. JOMAD constructs emotional and symbolic gardens around the figure, while Alfonseca charges the figure with a radiant social and cultural presence. In both practices, the body is never isolated from its environment. Instead, it is shaped by space, memory, and meaning.At once intimate and expansive, Inner Gardens reflects some of the most important currents in contemporary painting today: the continued renewal of figuration, the growing significance of diasporic narratives, and the desire for works that combine formal strength with emotional and cultural depth. For collectors, the exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with two distinctive artistic voices whose practices are visually compelling, critically relevant, and increasingly resonant within the international contemporary art landscape. -
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Why Inner Gardens matters
Inner Gardens offers more than a visual encounter. It brings together two artists whose practices reflect a broader shift in contemporary art toward figurative painting that is both emotionally charged and culturally meaningful. Through different formal approaches, JOMAD and Tiffany Alfonseca show how the human figure can carry memory, identity, vulnerability, and presence within richly constructed spaces.
Why collect JOMAD
JOMAD’s work stands out for its distinctive visual language, combining architectural clarity with emotional intensity. Her paintings create immersive spaces where floral forms, color rhythms, and human figures come together in compositions that are immediately recognizable. Her multidisciplinary approach, spanning painting, ceramics, and public interventions, reinforces the coherence and depth of her practice. For collectors interested in contemporary figurative painting with a strong personal language and a growing international profile, JOMAD represents a compelling voice to watch.
Why collect Tiffany Alfonseca
Tiffany Alfonseca’s work brings together strong visual impact and cultural relevance. Her paintings are celebrated for their radiant color, layered surfaces, and powerful representations of Afro-diasporic identity. She creates portraits that are both intimate and expansive, rooted in personal heritage while speaking to larger conversations around visibility, community, and belonging. For collectors, her practice offers the combination of aesthetic immediacy, conceptual clarity, and broader institutional relevance that often defines lasting significance.
For collectors
With Inner Gardens, OOA Gallery presents two artists whose practices align with sustained interest in contemporary figurative painting, portraiture, and identity-led narratives. JOMAD and Tiffany Alfonseca each offer a distinctive artistic language, strong visual recognisability, and work that resonates both emotionally and culturally. The exhibition is an opportunity to discover available works by two artists contributing to a wider international conversation around contemporary figuration.
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