Dark Earthy Tones

Kazuo Shiraga

"In front of me lay an austere road to originality. Run forward, I thought, run and run, it won’t matter if I fall down... Let me do it with my hands, with my fingers. Then, as I ran, thinking that I was moving forward, it occurred to me: Why not feet? Why don’t I paint with my feet?" Kazuo Shiraga, 1955

Anselm Kiefer

Die Argonauten (The Argonauts)

Oscar Murillo

“Paintings happen in the studio where I have my own kind of system, although there can be physical residue of performance in them. I like to cut up the canvas in different sections, work on them individually, fold them and just leave them around for months [...] It’s not about leaving traces, it’s about letting things mature on their own like aging cheese or letting a stew cook, they get more flavorful. That’s kind of how these paintings are made.”

Oscar Murillo

"The individual canvases are very much the DNA; they record that movement, the process of making."

Oscar Murillo

A frenzied throng of lines cascading onto a dual canvas arrangement, Oscar Murillo’s