ESK#4 Painting

Born in 1980 (Houston Texas) and currently living in Madrid, Juan Murrieta lives obsessed with what has helped him understand and assimilate life, art. Motivated day after day by what he defines as the emotion of discovering, he gives importance not only to the result of the work but to the process of it’s creation as well. Through his insight and eagerness to understand materials, their history, texture and their interaction with light, he manages to perform with every raw material to represent and materialize his thoughts and personal experience. Murrieta’s artwork begins inspired by architecture and sculpture. His abstract language, where materials play a decisive role, lies between European informalism and American abstract expressionism. His creative process has led him to search for tools and elements that express his own existential philosophy such as felt, burlap, natural rubber, ceramics or analog noise among others. We will find in his work a strong presence of the artist’s personality and a magnificent dialogue between the subjects that arises from the contrast between the compositional control of the piece and the expressive energy of its materials, achieving a unique style that is characterized by using matter as a reflection on volume, space and time.