Juan Uslé was born in 1954 in Santander, Spain. He lives and works between Saro (Cantabria) and New York City. He studied fine art at Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in San Carlos, Valencia from 1973–77.
Spanish painter Juan Uslé’s recent work, now on view at Cheim & Read, bears an inseparable connection with environmental conditions experienced out of doors, and out of an urban scape, perhaps. That low, raking illumination at dusk, the change physically in our receptiveness to color and tonal contrasts when surrounded by fading light in...
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In two of the modestly scaled paintings – El jardín cerrado, 2016 and Frío dentro, 2016 – Uslé has introduced a new brushtroke. It is a striated fan-like shape, which he repeats in an interlocking pattern across the painting’s surface. The striations evoke the accretions of a seashell, which this brushstroke resembles....
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