“Painting is an indispensable part, or area, of our natural and cultural park, an active genetic organism that travels with us in our becoming. And it’s a protagonist of ‘actuality’ and of the future, in the same way that trees, so disastrously treated in certain parts of the planet (today is International Arbor Day), are for our parks and in our lives. Today we finally realize how necessary it is to breathe, as well as to contemplate.


I keep painting because it helps me to understand, to see things grow, with distance and intensity. I consider it a valid medium because, as someone between Italo Calvino and a Buddhist monk would say, painting unites 'immediacy and duration’ like no other medium.” – Juan Uslé

This was taken from a 2011 interview with Uslé and John Yau in the Brooklyn Rail. To read the full article, click here.

See this work and more in Uslé’s upcoming exhibition “Entre Dos Lunas,” opening at L.A. Louver later this month!

IMAGE: Juan Uslé, In Kayak (Silente), 2013, vinyl, acrylic, dispersion and dry pigment on canvas, 18 x 12 in. (46 x 31 cm)