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Nudo 7, 2021
Ink, oil stick, and clay on paper
41 1/4 x 29 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches framed,
Selva Maya, 2021
Steel, concrete, recycled newspaper pulp, pigment, inset newspaper photographs and plywood base
91 1/2 x 43 x 37 inches overall
Inframundo, 2021
Steel, concrete, recycled newspaper pulp, pigment, inset newspaper photographs and plywood base
69 x 53 x 36 inches overall
Pietà, 2021
Steel, concrete, recycled newspaper pulp, pigment, inset newspaper photographs and plywood base
70 1/2 x 40 x 21 1/2 inches overall
Upon first glance, I was a bit confused given the forms, the subjects and the content really. Gone are the more decorative, abstract pieces that signified labor and discussed labor in vague terms but now look mostly just like art, as we would expect it to be. This, took me a moment until I started to think closer about color again which was present the first time I saw the first show at Blum & Poe in 2014 (see here and here).
The accumulation of color and its connection to imagery as you can see in the photographs, embedded in the mounds. While the work seems less obvious to me in terms of the concept of the mounds, they do seem to retain more of an art as art thus commercial value. Not quite sure what all of this amounts to, and perhaps that is the question, what do these things amount to? How do things accumulate? And how do things rise from the ground up ?
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