Tres Hermanas by Juan Arango Palacios

Starting Price: $1,200

Juan Arango Palacios

Tres Hermanas, 2025

30 x 22 in.

Oil on canvas

About the Work

This painting was produced during the artist's stay at Flower Residency in Los Angeles. It features an image of three sisters simultaneously caring for each other's hair with a mountainous landscape in the background.

About the Artist 

Channeling my experience as a queer Colombian immigrant, my work investigates how representing the figure through lenses of queerness and migration establishes a cultural vocabulary that bolsters a sense of safety and belonging. My practice activates the figure’s gaze, physique, fashion expression, and setting to depict tense narratives that recount the queer Latinx experience to a broader audience.

Employing painting, drawing, and weaving processes, I produce images highlighting how gender and sexuality are conveyed through cultural identity. I reference and challenge the art historical canon by engaging with the fluid and boundless medium of oil painting.Placing myself within a tradition of Latin American figurative artists such as Saturnino Herrán, Debora Arango, and Fernando Botero, I produce images that address contemporary socio political factors that affect my life. My images resist homophobia and are a reflection of my chosen community, intimate encounters, and the unfulfilled experiences that linger in the mind of an immigrant. These narratives explore instances of passion, conflict, and questions of what my identity may have looked like had I never left my homeland.

Arango Palacios exhibited in ESTILAZO in 2022 at The Latinx Project.