![]() He sees the works as drawing from “memory without the nostalgia. “I’m talking about things that are still alive in me,” Quijano said of a process that draws mostly from memory. In Mercado (2020), two men read newspapers as they await customers at their fruit stands in a market, their legs and wares extending onto the wooden matte. ![]() ![]() Other works in the exhibition focus on ordinary encounters the artist has witnessed in Old San Juan. It’s not something that happened as much as something that is happening.” “The extensions that I give to my paintings try to bring it to the moment, to the present. “It goes beyond the frame because it seems to me that a painting is often a painting of the past-it seems to be stuck in a moment,” he said. The work is also animated by paint that goes beyond the confines of the canvas onto a wooden matte that Quijano constructed-a recurring motif throughout the series. ![]() Nick Quijano, Ave María (In memoriam of the victims of hurricane María), 2020.
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