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In
his new work Osuna takes his imagistic journey to a new level- The
paintings offer snapshots of deeply emotional responses to the otherwise
banal iconography of the southern California landscape : Finding
the blurry, emotive depth behind the surface of these icons, and
then re-crystallizing these depths into a new icon- never refusing
the southern California obsession with surface, but doing it one
better, by simultaneously reveling in the surface itself and revealing
in that surface the latent pangs for depth, blur, and the intimacy
of uncertainty. Osuna’s
paintings are beautiful snapshots- ethereal dreams of the enchanting
distopia which is Southern California. Technically Osuna has created
a new sort of precision blur, crossing lines of representation and
impression- a highway on a burnt sunny day, as seen through an impossibly
rain-streaked windshield. He grants the scale of the spectacular
to the most mundane of drive by vistas, somehow capturing their
reluctant beauty- a conquering of the everyday, which, combined
with the Spanish titles, give the pieces a sort of reverb, an echo
of the RE-Latin Americanization of the City of the Angels, as seen
through eyes both familiar and distant. Blurring
the lines between representation and abstraction, Osuna’s
landscapes are fragmented snapshots of California. His preoccupation
with the effects of light, color, surface, and perspective result
in mysterious impressions, momentary glimpses or suggestions of
familiar Californian vistas, as though they are photographs shot
from the viewpoint of a moving vehicle. Yet the curvilinear lines
and shapes which appear to abruptly disappear at the canvas’
edge, give the effect that they might extend and spiral around the
canvas- projecting a sense of continuous motion and movement. |
     
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