Residency at San Juan 721, during the summer of 2024.
Continuing our research of municipal painting in Puerto Rico, during this residency we expanded our work towards a form of sculptural painting. Reproducing the surfaces of wooden utility poles, incorporating hardware pieces, cables, and age-related qualities as pure visual language (the concrete as abstract). And looking to define a “tropical-edge” form of geometric abstraction: a loose, object-heavy variant of the hard-edge form, but unworried about post-painterly qualities such as precision, harmony... purity. Instead, asserting notions of tropicality with all its political, post-colonial associations.
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“M O N O C H R O M E S” (2024)
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“T E N D I D O S” (2024)
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From the “U T I L I T Y” series (2024)
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“Form Over Function III” (at left) & “Form Over Function II”