North Pulaski Branch hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month art exhibit featuring the work of artist Raul Ortiz.
Paintings from Ortiz’s collection will be on display from September 15 through October 15.
Artist Statement
As a process painter, my goal is to create a poetically contemporary landscape that captures an array of subtle shapes, textures, gestures, light and vibrant color relationships that are derived from the tradition of abstraction. This exploration is executed by juxtaposing colorful expressive brushstrokes, patches of flat spaces for contemplation and randomly framing areas by the use of a silhouetted image—a tree, branch or flora—by means of using manipulated photocopies of photographs taken on walks during trips or around town.
My current work, “Untitled Landscapes,” is a series of paintings that reinterpret/reframe and update the landscape with a contrasting contemporary twist.
