Moises Ortiz

Intersections

Moises Ortiz navigates the intersection of Cubist legacy, Italian Futurism, and the raw immediacy of post-graffiti aesthetics, forging a visual language that is both reverent and rebellious. His practice reimagines the ideologies of modernism, using experimental media as a means of disruption and dialogue between structure and spontaneity, history and now.

At the heart of Ortiz’s work lies a rigorous exploration of essential form. Shapes become signals; arrangements become rhythms. Each composition is carefully orchestrated yet alive with emotional undercurrents and conceptual tension. This deliberate balance allows him to fuse the gestural force of abstract expressionism with a quiet, introspective intensity, rendering each piece a site of personal excavation as much as visual invention.

Ortiz paints in conversation with ghosts. Rivera, Siqueiros – their walls speak, and he listens. But his is a different rhythm, fractured by Cubist echoes and bent through the lens of contemporary theory.

His works don’t simply ask to be seen; they ask to be entered. They invite contemplation, pause, and the possibility of transcendence. Within their layered abstractions, Ortiz offers viewers a space to encounter the sublime in the unexpected, to trace meaning not in narrative but in the nuance between gesture and geometry.

Oritz’s work is less a product of training than of tension between control and collapse, clarity and critique. From an early age, a relentless internal scrutiny shaped his relationship with image-making, compelling him to master the technical language of his medium while quietly dismantling its rules.

On view until August 9, 2025.

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