Angel Otero: Diario

Diario is the debut of a new, commissioned installation by New York-based artist Angel Otero (b. 1981), the fourth in a series of Atrium Projects at Kemper Museum. The artist’s largest painting to date, Diario underscores the personal and universal significance of leaving a mark somewhere.

Otero’s physically rigorous and experimental processes and techniques over the past decade continue to push the boundaries of painting and abstraction. Early in his career Otero developed a process whereby he would create representational works on large sheets of glass. He would then scrape the partially dried oil paint off of the surface, and reassemble the “oil skins,” as he refers to them, into multi-layered abstract collage compositions. For this installation, Otero took his process a step further by using previously discarded paintings and cut scraps from works he had saved in his studio over the past several years to compose a new painting, Diario.

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