Untitled

Eugenio Espinoza

1971

An acrylic-on-canvas painting with sand in which Espinoza lays a strict five-by-five black grid over raw canvas to test the tension between measured order and physical surface.

From a distance it reads as a severe, evenly spaced checkerboard of cream squares and broad black bands, but close up the hand-painted edges, wrinkles, stains and sandy texture make the geometry feel weathered and bodily.

By combining the modernist grid with gritty materiality and visible imperfections, this 1971 work links minimalist abstraction to a more tactile, site‑sensitive practice in Latin American art that foregrounds material contingency over ideal purity.

Palette

Art Terms

Acrylic paint Canvas Painting Minimalism Geometric abstraction Abstraction Figure/ground relationship Unprimed canvas

Exhibitions

Visual Analysis of the Painting by Picasso - Seated Man - 1911

1940

Cubism and Abstract Art

1936

Second Floor Permanent Collection

1958

Committed to Print

1988