Las Máscaras V and VI unfolds across two panels where translucent oval forms overlap in a continuous rhythmic composition. The relationship between the two canvases heightens the sense of movement: contours repeat, shift in scale, and visually migrate from one panel to the other. Blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and red are modulated through layers of paint that create simultaneous impressions of depth and transparency. This geometric abstract painting resists a static, frontal reading and instead encourages the eye to circulate across the paired surfaces. The result balances structure, chromatic lightness, and suspended energy, allowing color and form to remain in constant visual dialogue.
This series draws inspiration from Hatillo’s Fiesta de los Santos Inocentes, translating the festival’s vibrant movement and collective energy into a refined abstract vocabulary. Through repeated organic forms, layered translucent color, and rhythmic patterns of ovals, dots, and lines, Amador evokes the bells, textiles, and dynamic motion of the masqueraders without depicting them literally. The palette-ranging from vivid chromatic bursts to softened whites-recalls the iconic costumes of the celebration. Rooted in geometric abstraction yet shaped by lived cultural experience, Las Máscaras- situates local tradition within a contemporary, Caribbean-centered approach to painting.
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Geometric Abstract Painting - Las Máscaras V and VI, 2023. By Juan Carlos Amador
Las Máscaras V and VI, 2023
From The Las Mascaras (The masks) Series
Spray paint, acrylic and gel medium on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall size: 66 H x 116 W in.
Individual size: 66 H x 58 W in.Unframed
Juan Carlos Amador López is a multimedia artist, born in Mayagüez and raised on the coast of Aguadilla. He has dedicated himself to the visual arts since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, with his creative emphasis placed on the concept of color. Through his contemporary works, he revisits and reevaluates the Neo-Impressionist pictorial method—also known as Divisionism—characteristic of the late 19th-century movement.
His recent abstractions display a unique style and focus on optical color combinations, ranging from the fragmented application of pure pigmentation to extensive, oval shapes of semi-opaque pigments. Amador superimposes these translucent color patches with the intention of filling the plane with an assortment of hues frozen in a process of transformation. Free from the burden of a specific narrative or message, the meaning of these works depends on the appreciation of each viewer—on their individual and biological capacity to instantly perceive, comprehend, and interpret color introspectively.
Juan Carlos Amador has exhibited his work both within and outside of Puerto Rico, with his most recent exhibition having been on the island of Saint Thomas. His work is also part of important local and international private collections.
