Juan is both a painter and collage artist, also known for
his portraits. He is what I call a true painter. Juan’s collages have a
distinct painterly appearance.
They immediately reminded me of some of the landscape work of the Bay
Area’s figurative giants. A native
of Chile, Juan has made his home in San Francisco for decades. Juan’s work is undoubtedly Californian
but with a strong palette that might suggest a hint of his Latin American
roots. Like many of us San
Franciscans, we all retain a little bit of the best of wherever we got started
in life.
Look carefully at the work shown here – at first you might
think they are paintings – but they are collages that incorporate wax, blending
medium and paper. Juan’s work is a
genuine meeting of collage and landscape
and I am pleased to include one of his pieces in Collage meets Landscape.
The Collage + Landscape = Collagescape will be on view at San Francisco’s Glama-Rama Salon and Gallery at 304 Valencia
Street in San Francisco.
The show opens in two days and will be up from July 29 to
September 28, 2014 with an opening reception next week on Friday, August 1 (7pm
to 10 pm).
The exhibit will have two components:
On the main level, there will be an exhibit of my new series
of work called Collagescapes.
On the upper level of Glama-Rama, I am curating a companion
show of mixed media works, where the theme will be Collage meets Landscapes.
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