Uslé, Juan.
Works of the artist.
Juan Uslé was born in Cantabria in 1954. He is a contemporary Spanish painter with significant national and international prestige. [+]
Uslé, Juan
Juan Uslé was born in Cantabria in 1954. He is a contemporary Spanish painter with significant national and international prestige.
He studied Fine Arts from 1973 until 1977 at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia.
In 1980 he received two scholarships from the Ministry of Culture: the Scholarship for Young Artists and two years later the Scholarship for the Investigation of New Expressive Forms. Throughout the 80s, he exhibited in various galleries in Madrid, but ended up opening his own gallery to showcase his abstract expressionist works.
In 1987 he moved with his partner Victoria Civera to New York and established his studio in Brooklyn. While, in 1992 he participated in the Documenta in Kassel and in 2002 he won the National Prize for Plastic Arts.
After his abstract expressionist beginnings he evolved towards fully embracing abstract painting with the occasional figurative motifs: the maritime and romantic landscape of shipwrecks or mythical voyages. Once he settled in New York, his paintings began to be defined by strokes, lines, and contours. Always following a certain order, his work was combined with lyricism and the strength of expressionism. Around 1993 his art was influenced by Mondrian and Manhattan's urban landscape.
Currently he is characterized for his broad brushstrokes, which run across the surface of the canvas with great delicacy, and for his unique explorations of color.
He currently lives and works between New York and Saro (Cantabria).
