Mis Momentos Literarios
Fernando Pintado
November 24 - December 22
Pintado, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1982, lives and works in New York City. Pintado’s exhibition Mis Momentos Literarios , the title of which is taken from a Puerto Rican literature textbook, is part of a cycle of his site-specific painting installations. The unstretched paintings that compose these installations are mounted in overlapping layers to the gallery’s walls. These layers of Pintado’s paintings create narrow, hollow spaces that intertwine to produce new works of their own. But each of Pintado’s installations also draw on a common, personal iconography: fishbowls, libraries, flowers, and stacks of paper impart pasts, presents, and futures held still like a picture but seen to be in an uncontrollable flux.
Pintado’s solo exhibitions have been presented at La Productora, San Juan, PR (2015); Chemi Room, San Juan, PR (2012); Roberto Paradise, San Juan, PR (2011). Notable group exhibitions include Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2012); Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011). Pintado’s residencies include the Vermont Studio Center (2015); and he has been the recipient of the Charles G. Shaw Award Saul Lyons Memorial Scholarship, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY (2013). His work is held in notable collections, including the Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection, Washington, D.C.; Donald Baechler Collection, New York, NY; and the César and Mima Reyes Collection, San Juan, PR.
