Pan American Art Projects is pleased to present Jorge Rios’s third solo exhibition at the gallery titled “for my next trick…” The show will include paintings made in the last two years. This series of works continues his investigation of visual perception, painting conventions and the process of creation

Rios is inspired by how fundamental opposites find synthesis in the experience of the work of art, which for him is both artifice (construction, illusion, deception) and truth (actuality, emotion, transformation) simultaneously.

In the works on view, gestural brushstrokes, drips, and stains coexist with graphic grids, stripes and flat color fields. These different modes of painting reference historically divergent approaches to abstraction, such as spontaneity versus intentionality, fast and slow mark-making and accident vis-a-vis control. This is a way for the artist to blur the line between aesthetic trickery and artistic sincerity. 

Jorge Rios lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the National Academy of Visual Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana, Cuba. He holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2021) and graduated with an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023. His work is part of the collections of Espacio 23 (Miami. FL) and SOLO Collection (Madrid, Spain).