RELAY
This series is part of the COLORED exhibition, showing at 1053 Gallery.
In the Relay series, we see Ortiz reworking and repurposing the painted canvases of a friend, Heleen Heyning. He began these works by painting blues and yellows, a contemplative process to find his way back to stillness after all the movement leading up to and surrounding his last exhibition. The canvases are imbued with an invisible painted foundation, from which he initiated a deductive process to simplify the picture plane into monochromatic works keeping some elements of the original pieces in this unofficial collaboration.
- Lindsay Comstock, Curator 1053 Gallery
Acrylic on Canvas 2024
Paintings size from 40 inches x 40 inches