"innocence and flesh (swan and figure)" by Jorge K. Cruz
Oil on canvas
14 x 11"
Jorge K. Cruz was born in the coastal city of Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1995. He emigrated to New York City at the age of 17. Self-taught as an artist, Cruz made an early decision to dedicate his path to painting, which he approached as an intuitive and experimental action. The artist’s work is inflected with this sense of flux between the worlds of past and present; between a saturated familiarity and the starkness of the present moment; channeled into the romantic, nostalgic, expressive, and even conflicting capacities of painting as a medium. The artist manipulates, deconstructs, and develops compositions concentrating on the figure and its surrounding elements—an outcome achieved through moments of sublimity and contemplation.
Oil on canvas
14 x 11"
Jorge K. Cruz was born in the coastal city of Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1995. He emigrated to New York City at the age of 17. Self-taught as an artist, Cruz made an early decision to dedicate his path to painting, which he approached as an intuitive and experimental action. The artist’s work is inflected with this sense of flux between the worlds of past and present; between a saturated familiarity and the starkness of the present moment; channeled into the romantic, nostalgic, expressive, and even conflicting capacities of painting as a medium. The artist manipulates, deconstructs, and develops compositions concentrating on the figure and its surrounding elements—an outcome achieved through moments of sublimity and contemplation.
Oil on canvas
14 x 11"
Jorge K. Cruz was born in the coastal city of Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1995. He emigrated to New York City at the age of 17. Self-taught as an artist, Cruz made an early decision to dedicate his path to painting, which he approached as an intuitive and experimental action. The artist’s work is inflected with this sense of flux between the worlds of past and present; between a saturated familiarity and the starkness of the present moment; channeled into the romantic, nostalgic, expressive, and even conflicting capacities of painting as a medium. The artist manipulates, deconstructs, and develops compositions concentrating on the figure and its surrounding elements—an outcome achieved through moments of sublimity and contemplation.