Julio Suárez

Julio Suárez is probably one of the most significant Puerto Rican artists of his generation. His work navigates between the limits of drawing and painting, and has been concerned for over 40 years with fundamental aspects of the medium such as: form, color and surface. His paintings, poetically employs a language similar to that of geometric abstraction in order to delineate the presence of color on the canvas. His geometry though, is informal and intuitive; a system that follows no mathematic rigor whatsoever, but that is rather guided by feeling and subjectiveness. This allows his color fields and monochromes to feel loose, while his lines and folds generate "tension" within the canvas, subverting the modernist rigor with a playful and relaxed approach.

He has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan and Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Centro para el Desarrollo del Arte Contemporáneo in Santo Domingo, Centro de Arte la Regenta in Gran Canaria, and Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, among others.

Courtesy of Galería Agustina Ferreyra