Celeste Rapone blends figuration and abstraction, turning her focus on bodies in rest or action into a visual language that subverts traditional perspectival rules. Through formal concerns of surface, pattern, and color, Rapone distorts her figures—often women—letting the surrounding environment inform their form. Drawing on both art historical and autobiographical sources, she transforms her figures to explore the social tension between space, identity, and the ways we exist within our surroundings.
