Pan American Art Projects is pleased to present Jorge Rios’s third solo exhibition at the gallery entitled for my next trick... The show will include paintings and installations made in the last two years. Rios’ latest series of works continue his investigation about visual perception, painterly conventions, and the process of creation.

In 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 such as spontaneity versus intentionality and accident vis a vis control. For the artist, this is a way to blur the line between aesthetic trickery and artistic sincerity. Rios is attracted to how fundamental opposites find synthesis in the experience of the work of art, which for him is artifice (construction, illusion, deception) and truth (actuality, emotion, transformation) simultaneously. He understands his recent series of abstract paintings as non-symbolic devices that emulates the ambivalent nature of life.

“I don’t have a clear sense of my own personality. Therefore, I privilege stylistic diversity over identity and recognizability. My work exists in a protoplasmic state—a mirror on which different artistic movements and modes of painting coexist. The only constant throughout my career is the fact that I’m perpetually committed to both: the history and practice of painting”.