Untitled 1969

Soledad Sevilla made this untitled painting with what looks like oil on canvas and she's working with a limited palette of muted purple, moss green, and burnt orange. It's like she's trying to find a new way of seeing with simple shapes and repetitive patterns. The surface of the canvas is really interesting, there's a texture that seems to be built up of thin layers of paint, almost like she's layering time itself. The shapes are softly delineated, and it's hard to tell what tools she used. Look at how the purple and green forms interlock, creating a push and pull effect. The way she uses the warm orange to peek through, it creates a vibrant energy, almost like a hidden pulse. Sevilla’s work reminds me a bit of Agnes Martin, in its quiet devotion to simple forms and the way she uses repetition to create a meditative space. It's a painting that invites us to slow down, to really look, and to see how the smallest gestures can create something so expansive and resonant.