Picturing Landscapes Sweeter (after Ellsworth Kelly) by Isaac Vazquez
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Isaac Vazquez
Picturing Landscapes Sweeter (after Ellsworth Kelly), 2024
5.5 x 24 in. (each)
Pigmented sugar dichromate on linen
About the Work
This painting is from my series “Picturing Landscapes Sweet.” This artwork is referencing Ellsworth Kelly’s painting ”Train Landscape” - a mid-20th century modern painting where Kelly paints three colors on three separate panels. The three colors represent the colors he saw in the land while moving on a train. In this work I produce and depict the colors, along with the archival image, of a sugar cane field in Puerto Rico mid-20th century. The panels make an image of a sugar cane field in the Yabucoa Valley in Puerto Rico.
About the Artist
Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) has black curly hair, brown skin, and a pair of eyes that question what has been declared as true. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, he is an interdisciplinary artist who seeks how we discern the past through form. Working within installation, sculpture, or within the picture plane itself his practice revolves around methods of image-making: histories molded from images and images that are cast out of histories; languages embedded within those processes and the very edges of their perception. Vazquez received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his MFA from Northwestern University. He has received fellowships, grants, and has been a finalist for a number of programs, institutions, and organizations. He has exhibited in Chicago, in venues such as The Yards Gallery, Sullivan Galleries, The Block Museum of Art, The Terrain Biennial, and soon in various other spaces in and out of the U.S.
Vazquez exhibited in RicanVisions in 2025 at The Latinx Project.