I don’t have a clear sense of my own personality. That's why I privilege stylistic diversity over identity and recognizability. My work exists in a protoplasmic state—a mirror on which different artistic movements and pictorial attitudes coexist. It’s an unanswered question about the possibilities and relevance of painting as a discipline.
- Jorge Rios
My most recent process-based work is rooted in the history of abstraction and occupies the unsettled territory between spontaneity and extreme control. It is inspired by ideas about visual perception and painterly conventions. I like to juxtapose brushstrokes, drips, and stains along with graphic grids, stripes and flat color fields. These different modes of painting reference historically divergent approaches to painting such as spontaneity versus intentionality, accident vis a vis control, as well as fast and slow mark-making. This is an attempt to blur the line between aesthetic trickery and artistic sincerity.
I’m attracted to how fundamental opposites find synthesis in the experience of the work of art, which for me is artifice (construction, illusion, deception) and truth (actuality, emotion, transformation) simultaneously.
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Jorge RiosFor my next trick..., 2024Acrylic, ink and collage on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / Mr. Mystery, 2024Acrylic on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.013, 2024Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas72 x 60 in
182.9 x 152.4 cm
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.014, 2024Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.015, 2024Acrylic and ink on canvas40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.09, 2024Acrylic, ink and collage on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.10, 2024Acrylic and ink on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / The strange case of Jeffrey Uslip, 2024Acrylic and ink on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosAzul, Amarillo, Rojo, (polyptych), 2023Acrylic and ink on paper stretched on wood panel96 x 200 in. (48 x 96 in. each)
243.8 x 508 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosUntitled / Apología de la belleza, 2023Watercolor and acrylic marker on Arches paper30 x 22 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / Canadian porn, 2023Watercolor and acrylic marker on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / Ethiopian Jazz, 2023Acrylic and ink on paper mounted on wood panel48 x 36 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / Goldfish Enthusiasts, 2023Acrylic and ink on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.008, 2023Acrylic and ink on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.011, 2023Acrylic, ink and collage on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.016, 2023Acrylic and ink on canvas40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.017, 2023Acrylic and ink on canvas40 x 30 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.019, 2023Acrylic and ink on canvas72 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / R.A.A.07, 2023Acrylic and ink on paper mounted on wood panel48 x 36 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / The Longing for incompleteness, 2023Acrylic and ink on paper mounted on wood panel48 x 108 in
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Jorge RiosUntitled / Unmysterious shapes, 2023Acrylic and ink on paper mounted on wood panel48 x 36 in
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Jorge RiosThis Was the First Dew, 2022Oil on cowhide84 x 96 in
213.4 x 243.8 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosThis Was the First Labyrinth, 2022Oil and gold-leaf on cowhide90 x 78 in
228.6 x 198.1 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosThis Was the First Time, 2022Oil on cowhide60 x 60 in
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Jorge RiosThis was the first lightning, 2021Oil on canvas96 x 120 in
243.84 x 304.8 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosThis was the first mountain, 2020Oil on canvas86 x 110 in
218.44 x 279.4 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosThis was the First Shadow, 2020Oil on canvas96 x 120 in
243.84 x 304.8 cmView more details -
Jorge Rios8:02 pm, 2018Oil on canvas42 x 42 in
106.68 x 106.68 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosUntitled, Cellar Door Series, 2018oil on canvas66 x 66 in
167.64 x 167.64 cmView more details -
Jorge RiosClouds I, 2016Oil on canvas71 x 71 in
180.34 x 180.34 cmView more details
The most important intellectual influences in my life derive directly from my Cuban and Latin American identity. I grew up an avid consumer of Magical Realism literature, especially the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and the Cuban Alejo Carpentier, who developed the term “Lo Real Maravilloso” (The Marvelous Real) to describe the fantastical quality of Latin American history and culture: where the everyday life is intrinsically mixed with pre-Columbian indigenous mysticism, the Spanish Catholic dogma and African pantheistic religions.
- Jorge Rios
Jorge Rios holds a BA in painting from the National Academy of Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana, Cuba. In 2021 earned his BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently enrolled in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis.
The work of Jorge Rios transcends the flatness of ordinary visual language reaching the subtlety, ambivalence and complexity that we perceive more clearly like in other art forms such as music or poetry. Rios tries to establish through his art a link between the individual experience of reality and the totality of existence. Whether you call it God, the Truth, the Idea, the Spirit, the Da-sein, the Being, or the Nothingness… In other words, “art for me has the mission of redeeming the being out of the mundanity of the human condition, by stimulating what is divine, universal and eternal in it.”
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Jorge Rios
for my next trick… November 23, 2024 - January 25, 2025 Pan American Art ProjectsIn the works on view, gestural brushstrokes, drips, and stains coexist with graphic grids, stripes and flat color fields. These different modes of painting reference historically divergent approaches to abstraction...Read more -
¿Y esa luz? Es tu sombra - A Symphony of Lights and Shadows
Selection of works from R. Borlenghi’s Collection March 29 - May 25, 2024 Pan American Art & DesignPan American Art Projects is please d to announce ¿Y esa luz? Es tu sombra - A Symphony of Lights and Shadows , a collective exhibition from R. Borlenghi’s Collection....Read more -
Text / Image
Collective Exhibition November 16, 2023 - January 6, 2024Text/Image is an exploration of the relationships between these two often interconnected concepts. The show engages in a broad discussion of semiotics and visual rhetoric with the exhibiting artists exploring...Read more -
Power Couture
Collective Exhibition June 3 - August 12, 2023Power Couture , curated by Claudia Taboada, attempts to conceptualize the relationship between art and fashion and to analyze the convergence of their languages in the discourse of power relations....Read more -
Abcdefg
Collective Exhibition June 25 - August 20, 2022Pan American Art Projects is excited to announce ABCDEFG, a group show featuring the works of mainly Miami based artists Paul Amundarain, Rigoberto Diaz, Filio Galvez, Delvin Lugo, Marlon Portales,...Read more -
Jorge Rios
The Age of the Wind May 1 - July 10, 2021Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce The Age of the Wind, a solo show of Cuban-born artist Jorge Rios. We will be presenting a new body of work,...Read more
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Jorge Rios work featured in a NADA exhibition
September 2, 2022Jorge Rios, along with other artists, will be participating in the Reduction to Satire exhibition, organized by NADA curated series. The exhibition is a gathering...Read more -
PAAP at LA Art Show 2022
LA ART SHOW IS TWO WEEKS AWAY WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY FOCUSED PROGRAMMING, NFTs, AND MORE. January 5, 2022The LA Art Show , the most comprehensive international contemporary art show in America, is excited to be returning to the LA Convention Center with...Read more -
Random Specific | Pop-Up Exhibition
Featuring gallery artist Jorge Rios and Filio Galvez November 20, 2021November 27 – December 31, 2021 Opening Reception: November 27, 6 – 10 pm 2930 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127 Open 11am – 6pm...Read more
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Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2024
GROUP SHOW March 21 - 24, 2024Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce our participation in the seventh edition opening of the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C) art fair,...Read more -
PINTA MIAMI 2023
GROUP SHOW December 6 - 10, 2023MIAMI, FL | We are pleased to announce our participation in the Pinta Miami Art Fair, Booth B6. Immerse yourself in a curated collection that...Read more -
Art On Paper 2022
GROUP SHOW September 8 - 11, 2022Our gallery will present a collective project (5 artists) based on the idea of the “non-place”, those landscapes that only exist in memory and that,...Read more -
Contemporary Art Auction
Charity Sale to support Fountainhead Arts, Miami, FL May 3 - 15, 2022May 3 — 15, 2021 MIAMI, FL | April 14, 2021. Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce Contemporary Art Auction , a charity...Read more -
Intersect Palm Springs 2022
GROUP SHOW February 10 - 13, 2022Intersect Palm Springs is a boutique fair that brings together a dynamic mix of Modern and Contemporary Art and Design galleries, and is activated by...Read more -
LA Art Show 2022
GROUP SHOW January 19 - 23, 2022Our gallery is pleased to announce our participation at LA Art Show 2022 from January 19 to 23, where we will present contemporary artists who...Read more -
Art Miami 2021
GROUP SHOW November 30 - December 5, 20212021 FAIR INFO Tuesday, November 30, 2021 Platinum VIP Preview: 4.30pm - 6:30pm Access for Art Miami + CONTEXT Art Miami Platinum VIP Cardholders Tuesday,...Read more -
LA Art Show 2021
GROUP SHOW July 29 - August 1, 2021OPENING NIGHT PREMIERE PARTY Thursday, July 29, 2021 VIP Red Card Special Collectors’ Preview 6pm – 10pm SPECIAL VIP RED CARD SHOW HOURS (Exclusively for...Read more -
100 years of Cuban art
Charity Sale to benefit Caritas Cuba August 8 - 23, 2020Pan American Art Projects is pleased to announce 100 YEARS OF CUBAN ART, a charity auction to support Friends of Caritas Cuba with the donation...Read more -
Art Miami 2019
GROUP SHOW December 3 - 8, 2019BROWSE WORKSRead more