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Moises Ortiz Intersections

Moises Ortiz, June 2025. Photographed by Guillaume Zuili.

Moises Ortiz navigates the intersection of Cubist legacy, Italian Futurism, and the raw immediacy of post-graffiti aesthetics, forging a visual language that is both reverent and rebellious. His practice reimagines the ideologies of modernism, using experimental media as a means of disruption and dialogue between structure and spontaneity, history and now.

At the heart of Ortiz’s work lies a rigorous exploration of essential form. Shapes become signals; arrangements become rhythms. Each composition is carefully orchestrated yet alive with emotional undercurrents and conceptual tension. This deliberate balance allows him to fuse the gestural force of abstract expressionism with a quiet, introspective intensity, rendering each piece a site of personal excavation as much as visual invention.

Ortiz paints in conversation with ghosts. Rivera, Siqueiros –their walls speak, and he listens. But his is a different rhythm, fractured by Cubist echoes and bent through the lens of contemporary theory.

His works don’t simply ask to be seen, they ask to be entered. They invite contemplation, pause, and the possibility of transcendence. Within their layered abstractions, Ortiz offers viewers a space to encounter the sublime in the unexpected, to trace meaning not in narrative but in the nuance between gesture and geometry.

Oritz’s work is less a product of training than of tension—between control and collapse, clarity and critique. From an early age, a relentless internal scrutiny shaped his relationship with image-making, compelling him to master the technical language of his medium while quietly dismantling its rules.

Intersections by Moises Ortiz at solo.

On view from June 29, 2025 until August 2, 2025.