Bourbon loves 2018

Mariojosé Ángeles painted "Bourbon loves" with layers of color wash over the canvas, creating a luminous and dreamlike world. I can imagine the artist gently coaxing the image into being. The canvas is stained with translucent layers of pink, yellow, and blues, and the forms seem to bloom out of each other. There is a really juicy-looking form in the center. It seems to be devouring another blue form with featherlike lashes. Maybe the title gives a clue to what the artist was thinking. It is like the painting is having a love affair with itself. The act of painting, you know, it's like a conversation. The artist’s hand responds to the emerging image, adjusting, refining, and inventing as they go. Ángeles offers a language of fluid forms, and strange yet familiar. This reminds me of other painters like Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. We, as painters, are all involved in this ongoing back-and-forth, sharing ideas and inspiring each other's creativity.