Carlos Rosales-Silva American, b. 1982

"My most recent paintings are a hyper textural tour of a more honest and expansive modernist and post-modernist cultural history. The works are abstracted and brightly colored decolonial landscapes that offer a non-binary view of the world, one where natural organic landscapes are intertwined with human-made structures. The physical materials of the paintings echo this idea. Sand and stone mixed with synthetic pigments and binders make up the rough surfaces that approximate an architectural surface that is both of the earth and processed synthetically. Formally the works are obsessive about color, shape, and texture, offering an alternative art history in which the vernacular visual cultures of the southwest United States offer threads that weave a historical tapestry, one that is overlapping and ever-expanding." -Carlos Rosales-Silva, 2021