Miguel Osuna: Lineage

Monday, September 21, 2020 7:00 PM 19:00
Sunday, October 25, 2020 8:00 PM 20:00

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Quotidian presents Miguel Osuna: Lineage highlighting artist Miguel Osuna’s investigation of the line.

Miguel Osuna has worked closely with the gallery for several years on solo and group exhibitions. Quotidian is showcasing these works in our inventory to highlight his ongoing relationship with the gallery’s principal. And we are using Lineage as a metaphor that describes their trajectories as ceaseless artifacts that are visible from certain perspectives and loci.

In Lineage, Miguel Osuna uses the line to explore the concepts of physicality and perception, challenging the viewer to understand that the line exists and extends beyond the canvas. For him, the line is a referential code – a visual emotional language and context framed by unseen and sometimes unknown and unknowable forces that act on it.

Some works in Lineage stretch perception by elongating dimensional contours and emphasizing movement. In the embroidered piece August Bloom Osuna has fragmented the line, yet in reality, the elements in the front and the back of the canvas are one continuous gesture that articulates how we see and how we feel and engage with the physical world. These fragments and horizons are singularly and cumulatively essential in articulating the language of experience – we move through, effect and are impacted by the spaces around us.

Osuna’s work focuses on movement and he shares with the viewer the kinetics necessary to make the piece. Following the gestures becomes the gateway to exploring ideas about material, surface, color and positionality. These codes are seen and felt as the bonds and boundaries between us and the canvas.