Harper’s is happy to announce Stillness, Los Angeles-based artist Salomón Huerta’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation options new oil work by Huerta and opens Thursday, Might 15, 6–8pm, at Harper’s Chelsea 512 with a reception attended by the artist.
All through his profession, Huerta has developed a eager consciousness of the quiet drama of home area. The artist continuously renders on a regular basis scenes with a heightened presence. His nonetheless life work of inside and exterior terrains reveal the theater that accents the banal, rendering on a regular basis figures, objects, and interiors with enthralling palettes. All through Stillness, Huerta derives inspiration from the radiant colours that saturate high fashion magazines. In temper and tone, these new works draw viewers into enchanting worlds: the artist enlivens conventional vistas of suburbia, coloring the mundane with a whimsical hand.
In a single Untitled (Home) work, silence befalls a trio of lavender homes. Their pointed roofs attain towards a sprawling ochre sky that seems thick with warmth. Triangular types resembling bushes slice vertically down the visible aircraft, partitioning the homes with additional angularity. Beneath them, the bottom is flush with a young pink hue that softens the in any other case unyielding composition. In one other, Huerta reproduces an identical association of the provincial panorama, with three inexperienced houses positioned in parallel uniformity like prototypes of a potential township. Inside these orderly scenes, time doesn’t seem to cross: stately houses as an alternative sit in mounted alignment amidst neat environment.
Alongside these topics, Huerta additionally continues his investigation of swimming swimming pools—a recurrent object of research throughout his work and the first motif of his ongoing collection, Pool Work. In a single portray, Huerta portrays a inexperienced pool in cinematic stillness, staged in entrance of a dewy panorama laden with lush palm bushes. Just like the refracting water, these bushes are composed of fluid marks—abstracted strokes of orange and yellow flicker like torches in opposition to a grey sky. Their reflections shimmer ghostlike within the emerald water under, warping with painterly distortion. Huerta’s brushwork blurs figuration with ambiance right here, remodeling a seemingly mundane setting into one thing dreamlike and uncanny. The setting is each serene and charged with latent pressure.
Collectively, these new work reveal Huerta’s enduring fascination with the poetics of area and floor. The artist approaches every terrain with a profound curiosity: by way of his brush, the pedestrian turns into otherworldly—every standard habitat its personal vessel for impassioned exploration of kind and shade. With a masterful steadiness of managed mark-making and painterly expression, Huerta invitations viewers to linger in these suspended moments all through Stillness. In these transitory intersections, narrative falters and notion takes maintain.
