Tag: Oscar Murillo

Sophie Barber: Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long dry

A new exhibition of Barber’s work, the first in her hometown of Hastings, has her distinctive paintings, immersive and direct, on glued-together canvases or folded up into small squares, heavy and tactile and with a playful wink to art history
Black art matters: what not to miss in Miami

Miami Art Scene May 2021 – leading America’s obsessive, overdue, and necessarily over-weighted attention to diversity, the focus on Black Art has morphed from moment to movement
Oscar Murillo: Violent Amnesia

Spread across the various spaces of Kettle’s Yard, Murillo’s works address the recurrent theme of the movement of people across borders and human labour in a global economy
Oscar Murillo: through patches of corn, wheat and mud

Canvases appear abandoned on the floor and wet paint suggest a state of un-finish, but the compositions are complex, and the overlaid marks, prints, and repeated brushstrokes, a result of a prolonged process and experimentation
Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America

Saatchi Gallery, London 2 April – 31 August 2014
Happy to scuff your floors for you, Murillo

If I was to draw a line, this journey started approximately 400km north of the equator is the title of Oscar Murillo’s exhibition at the South London Gallery, his first major solo show in the UK