The Arts Center at Duck Creek (https://www.duckcreekarts.org/) is pleased to present REDYELLOWPINK, a solo exhibition by artist Jorge Rios. The exhibition will be on display in the John Little Barn from Saturday, June 27 through Sunday, August 2 with an opening reception on June 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m.
Jorge Rios’ work is rooted in the history of abstraction and driven by process. He combines gestural brushstrokes, drips, and stains with graphic elements like grids and patterns rendered in highly saturated pigments.
"I prioritize stylistic variety over a consistent visual identity. My paintings are like a funhouse mirror on which different artistic movements and attitudes are reflected while conveying a sense of ongoing jest,” shares Jorge Rios.
Recurring motifs such as the black-and-white grid carry layered meaning, connecting modernist ideals to the artist's upbringing in Havana, Cuba, where utopian rhetoric and cultural contradiction were facts of daily life. Emigrating to the United States in 2013, the artist has remained attuned to states of flux and dislocation, conditions that find form in paintings where opposing forces like artifice and sincerity, structure and accident, coexist without resolution. Stylistically varied and resistant to a fixed identity, the work uses abstraction as a site of open questioning rather than certainty.