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Angel Otero Paintings

Puerto Rican, b. 1981
Angel Otero (b. 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is best known for his process- based paintings, collages, and sculptural works that venerate the inherent qualities of his material of choice, oil paint. Employing various methods of collage, Otero explores the potential for abstraction to meaningfully engage memory and identity using line, form, and color. Through a methodically innovative process, the artist paints representationally onto large sheets of glass, scrapes the partially dried oil paint from the surface, and then reassembles the resulting “skins” into multi-layered compositions. In this way, the paint itself emerges as a crucial conceptual component, mobilizing ideas of chance, conveyance, and aesthetic vernacular, while the images and themes it visualizes become fragments or parts of a history energized by the material. Much of Otero’s early work was directly influenced by personal memories based on photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of painters such as Nicolas Poussin, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning. Instead of representing his life through art, he archives moments within it through a constant negotiation between lived experience and art historical references. Otero is the recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Visual Arts. His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Berezdivin Collection, Puerto Rico; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey; Kemper Musem of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Margulies Collection, Miami, FL; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; UBS Art Collection, Chicago, IL; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
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Artist: Angel Otero
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Angel OteroUntitled, 2012

$59,074

Untitled

By Angel Otero

Located in Milano, MI

Throughout his process-based abstractions, Angel Otero explores his Puerto Rican lineage and the physicality of oil paint. In one of his best-known series, he first paints onto glass...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Angel Otero Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled

Angel OteroUntitled

$7,679

Untitled

By Angel Otero

Located in Milano, MI

Throughout his process-based abstractions, Angel Otero explores his Puerto Rican lineage and the physicality of oil paint. In one of his best-known series, he first paints onto glass...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Angel Otero Paintings

Materials

Oil

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