Miguel Osuna

Statement

Art is a practice of understanding. I want to understand everything and I believe that art provides a space where that is possible. Perspective is often clouded by humanity, but my practice is dedicated to finding and unpacking those moments and glimpses of brilliant providence, where a rich, if brief clarity allows ideas to coalesce and burst through my consciousness. My art works are intimate, personal and often theoretical investigations of the fluidity of life.

Experience is grounded in emotion, so I use abstraction to illuminate emotional space, bridging the gap between my humanity and that of the viewer, who uses his/her own emotional awareness to perceive and communicate with my work. The body of my work concentrates on how landscapes look and feel through thoughtful recollection. Whether painting horizons with the postmodern flatness of memory, or deconstructing the topography of quantum physics, landscape informs my perspective and allows the works to travel internally through gradients and color values, and externally, through the kinetic vibrancy of the compositions.

The gestural quality of my compositions conveys the organic motion and momentum of the unwritten language of energy. I put my whole being into the imprints I leave on the canvas with calligraphic movement. These forms are both intuitive and contemplative in structure, and representative of evolutionary ideas manifested through my search and survey of the media that attract me: oils, pigments, ink, and resin.

The canvas provides a self-referential structure for me to explore scale, position and volume of color, form and texture. My latest explorations on surface, reflexion and glare allow me to create my own mini-universe in which I can represent both my understanding and my questioning of the universe at large. Ultimately, my hope is that the viewer shares this microcosm with me, searching for the same ideas, solutions, and emotions that connect us.

BIO

Miguel Osuna has been painting and drawing from an early age. He studied architecture in Mexico, and a year after graduating, moved to Los Angeles. He practiced architectural design in diverse industries through 2001. In 2002 he started painting full time while visiting Buenos Aires. Upon return, he engaged in an exploration of Los Angeles, his adopted hometown, through an extensive series of abstract landscape paintings that still continues. His studio practice frequently involves investigations on different techniques, applications and materials. He presented a new body of abstract work, 'SPIN', in Los Angeles in November of 2012. He was invited by the California Department of Transportation to present a solo exhibition at the CALTRANS District 7 Headquarters on November 2013. Works from his new series "The Bends" were included in the 2015 Ping Pong Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland during 2015 Art Basel Art Fair in June, and in Miami Beach when Ping Pong "bounces" in Miami Beach during Art basel Miami, December 2015. His work will be included in the exhibition "Work Over School" at the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angeles in September 2016.

Osuna lives and works in Los Angeles

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION: PING PONG - LOS ANGELES, BASEL AND MIAMI
Group Exhibition, during Art Basel 2015, 2016
Los Angeles, CA, - Basel, Switzerland and Miami

CALTRANS MUSEUM DNTN LA / GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY
Solo Exhibition: EN ROUTE
Downtown Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA, 2013

GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY
Solo Exhibition: SPIN
Beverly Hills, CA, 2012

LAAA - LOS ANGELES ART ASSOCIATION
Open Show [group exhibition]
Los Angeles, CA December 2011

LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
Art Auction XIV [group exhibition]
Long Beach, CA April 2011

CEARTE MUSEUM
State Center of the Arts of Ensenada
ART EXCHANGE MEXICO-USA 2008/2009
"Building Bridges"
Ensenada, BC, Mexico November 2008-Itinerant through Mexico

CONSULATE GENERAL OF MEXICO SAN FRANCISCO
EXONOME
A Selection of Iberoamerican Artists in California
San Francisco, CA, November 2008

MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART [MOLAA]
AUCTION EXHIBITION 2007 & AWARDS COMPETITION
[group exhibition]
Long Beach, CA, October 2007

CLAREMONT MUSEUM OF ART
VELOCITY
[group exhibition]
Claremont, CA, November 2007

KATZEN ARTS CENTER AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IBERO-AMERICAN ART
[group exhibition]
Salón Iberoamericano 2006
Washington DC, November 2006

MUSEUM OF ART, MAZATLÁN, MEXICO
PAISAJE-LANDSCAPE
[solo exhibition]
December 2006


CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MEXICO IN WASHINGTON
MIRRORS: CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN ARTISTS IN THE US
[group exhibition]
Washington DC, September 2005


CASA DE LA CULTURA ZACATECAS
POSTALES DESDE ZACATECAS
[solo Exhibition]
Zacatecas, Mexico, April 2006

BORNICKE CULTURE PALACE
KÜNSTLER ZU KÜNSTLERAUSSTELLUNG
Artists to Artists Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Berlin, Germany, August 2005

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