Bodegon #2

Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz

Gomez-Quiroz achieves a lithographic quality in this large soft-ground abstraction of a still life and he’s created an undulating texture that runs across the entire surface, making it seem as though we are viewing the objects through a fabric cloud.

In the late 1970s Gomez-Quiroz created several series of “Bodegon” etchings, color lithographs, and oil paintings, featuring similar still lifes and illustrating his exploration of overlaid shapes and patterns on abstracted backgrounds. Occasionally, as with “Bodegon #2,” the effect is like water or dancing shadows; in others, it is like a woven tapestry. Either way, his style perfects the idea of seeing one object through the lens of another, always suggesting without ever leading.