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Disenchanted with the world, she sat in her trashed simulated Garden of Eden smoking mapacho and listening to old school punk, grunge, and obscure psych records that excited her as a teenager in a small redneck town, learning to skateboard and discovering her first power chord. She was without a band, without a label, without a future, and had vowed never to make music again. Welcome to Paradise Lost was conceived while Taraka (pronounced like maraca) was living in solitary confinement in a hot Texas gallery with a live serpent in an attempt to return to a pre-internet Eden. Taraka's disheveled anthems fuse a combination of lo-fi opulence with ecstatic punk ritual, like the vivid visions of the disturbed daughter of Kate Bush and Johnny Rotten who drank ayahuasca at the gates of Warped Tour ’02. Since the breakup of the legendary underground cult duo Prince Rama, former front-woman Taraka has thrown herself headlong into the dark existential world of her “inner teenager,' merging bastard elements of outsider-psych, post-edenic grunge, kaleidoscopic punk and post-adolescent angst to create her debut solo album.Ī departure from Prince Rama’s sparkly dance-pop sound, WELCOME TO PARADISE LOST is a primal, electrifying, dirty and unapologetically life-affirming celebration of ennui and disillusion.

She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Fordham University and a Visiting Artist at The Cooper Union. Her work has been reviewed and featured by The New York Times, Metal Magazine, It’s Nice That, ARTnews, Artsy, Artnet News, Title Magazine, Vogue Italia, ArtMaze Mag, and Two Coats of Paint. She is the recipient of a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work and a 2019 Regional Economic Development Council Grant by NYSCA in collaboration with Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon. She has exhibited at Dinner Gallery, Peep Projects (PA), Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, Knockdown Center, Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, ArtYard (NJ), DC Moore Gallery, and Crush Curatorial among others. Cunat received her MFA from Cornell University, Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Fordham University. Their exclamatory presence is prolonged through charged hue and abstracted form. Influenced by depictions of nature from early American painting, Shaker gift drawings, Art Deco, sci-fi and horror movies, Cunat's recent paintings include imagery of plant life that appear loud and flamboyant at the outset. 1986, McHenry, IL) is a Japanese American artist, who uses painting and sculptural installation to confront familiarity by exaggerating or omitting characteristics from an observed source.

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