Jordan Quintero

I work in cycles and series and projects, often several concurrently, compulsively, relentlessly, trying to understand.
I understand why they call it a practice now.
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It is the passing that I try to cultivate, the happening of a painting, a sensitivity to the magic of it's appearance, the music that comes through. Synesthesia.
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But there are always negotiations, and so much labor, and guessing, and questioning of intentions: the circles. My art is how I try to handle my mistakes, how I deal with pain and loss and memory, and try to make beauty from that; it is highly analytic, in this sense.
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I think of my pictures primarily as American.

Californian, maybe.

They are a form of dance, I think.

- JQ, November 19th, 2013

BA in Art, UC Santa Cruz, 2005.