Archipelago, 27" x 51"

Archipelago (An essay on the solid and the empty, kindly subtitled).

Oil on Canvas.

“My work takes the surface as a platform to research ideas on the relationship between abstraction and figuration, colour and scale, the poetic and the mundane, or the hidden and the visible. Whether in the open mouth of a grocery bag or behind heavy drapes and torn papers, the images remaining on a veiled plane intermediate between these relationships are an invitation to an inner world. They record the passage from one space to another and the veil that divides them."
-Omar

Mexican Toronto-based abstract artist Omar Saenz has had four solo shows in museums and cultural institutions in Mexico and France. Omar has exhibited in spaces such as Material Art Fair and the MARCO Museum and his work was selected to participate in the Nuevo Leon State Art Award, a comprehensive survey of contemporary art from the Mexican state.