Carlos Rosales-Silva American, b. 1982

"Biblioteca" was a part of a series of paintings that I started here in San Antonio during my residency at Artpace. I had been traveling back and forth to the San Antonio Public Library, which is right up the street from Artpace and became really enamored with the building and Ricardo Legorreta's work. I eventually convinced the library, with some help from Artpace, to let me paint on the balconies of the library which up until then had been closed to the public. I started a series of paintings that were at the time direct studies and have since turned into memory-based studies of my time there. My time on the balconies and the genesis of research practice into Mexican modernism and postmodernism have a lot of influence on my work. This is the latest work in that series and it has a lot of the same colors that exist at the library." - Carlos Rosales-Silva