We are very excited to present new paintings by Spanish-born New York-based artist Juan Uslé. Opening at L.A. Louver on May 30th, this solo exhibition, titled Entre Dos Lunas, will premiere new works that embody the artist’s thoughtful and meditative approach to painting. 

The title for the exhibition (which translates to Between Two Moons) stemmed from his contemplations of the moon, beautifully elucidated through his written text:

“Before crossing the street, I buy an issue of Scientific American and read: ‘We often think of the moon as a place, but in fact it is a hundred million places, an archipelago of solitude.’

Not long after moving to New York in 1987, I made a blue painting, very dark, which I titled 'Between Two Moons.’ I recall that on many nights back then I would walk to the middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, and standing before the moon, I’d lean against the metal railing to gaze upon it. I would also watch its reflection, inverted, nervously playing on the dark waters of the East River.

In that reflection I began, little by little, to recognize the 'other moon,’ the one that could be seen from the other side of the blue, the place that I had left. I felt good there, between two moons, and the bridge was perhaps a metaphor, a 'non-place,’ a waystation that explained quite well how I was feeling.

Many years have passed since that time, and on countless occasions I’ve continued to observe the two moons, both from Saro (Spain), where I spend part of the year painting, and from here. Now, in New York, I no longer go to the bridge to view them; I am content to watch them from the balcony of the building where I paint. And it’s now almost impossible for me to isolate them and manage to see only one moon, because whenever I try, before me appears the image of the other, the moon that I would see from the other balcony of my studio.”

Juan Uslé: Entre Dos Lunas will be on view at L.A. Louver from May 30 - July 6, 2013.