Liberty isn't inevitable

“Liberty III (Nothing is Inevitable)” (acrylic on canvas), by Diana Zipeto, in her show “Tectonics,’’ at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Jan. 1-Feb. 2. She told the gallery:

"My folded paper paintings investigate issues of freedom and equality. The paintings express these ideals as both formidable and fragmented, unshakable and vulnerable, solid and uncertain.

“Starting with paper photographs, I fold the images to give them a new 3rd dimension, communicating both disruption and resilience. The ability to fold and reconfigure uncovers new meanings in familiar images. I make large paintings of the fragile paper constructions to fix transitional moments in a solid form.

“As an American female raised in the 1980s, I grew up in a time when liberty and equality seemed inevitable and always advancing. My paintings question that inevitability, and look at the uncertainty and possibility in our new era."