“If i could make videos, I wouldn’t have to paint.”
The masterwork ‘1964’, currently on display at El Museo Casa De Juanon through January 2022, is a 36 inch by 36 inch acrylic painting on canvas. But to call this piece merely a ‘painting’ is a misnomer, as it has been likened to “a bright and beautiful beacon of pure abstraction” by none other than the fictional critic and historian Clementine Greenberg.
The artist’s use of primarily warm tones creates a harmonious tension with the overwhelming coolness of the piece.
The picture plane is pushed from the center outward with the careful placement of the almost carelessly scribbled lines and brushwork.
The luminous white glow near the center shatters into hundreds of particles, harbingers of the advances in atomic energy of the present day.
Be sure to check it out yourself on your next visit to Chicagoland, Illinois.
