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Artist
Angel Otero
b. 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico · Based in New York & San Juan, Puerto Rico
- MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2009)
- BFA, SAIC (2007)
- Oil Paint Skin Sculptures
- Assemblage
- Transferred Canvas
- Domestic Memories
Angel Otero is an acclaimed Puerto Rican contemporary painter renowned for inventing a revolutionary painting technique where oil paint is poured and dried on glass sheets, peeled off like physical skins, and collaged onto canvas supports. Merging action painting with Puerto Rican domestic furniture and childhood memories, his works embody textural metamorphosis.
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