Omar Rodriguez-Graham Exhibition

Marc Straus

[Image: Omar Rodriguez-Graham "Batalla en las Tinieblas" (2022) Oil & acrylic on linen laid on panel 70.9 x 64.6 in.]

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MARC STRAUS presents an exhibition of recent works by Mexico City based artist Omar Rodriguez-Graham. This will be Rodriguez-Graham’s third one-person exhibition with the gallery.

Omar Rodriguez-Graham’s paintings are the results of his ongoing exploration in the terrains of color, texture, and time. His points of departure are historical Renaissance or Baroque figurative paintings. He then digitally deconstructs the image until there is an almost unrecognizable abstract composition. To this he begins to make further choices as to paint texture, colors, and shaping. In these recent oil paintings, the bands of colors partly determine the edges of the painting; they splay out to the periphery as shards or arrows. By not constricting the painting to a rectangle or circle he allows the colors, textures, and shapes on the interior to determine the edges. The result is a dynamic composition which allows the paintings to also function as wall sculptures.