Urban Art Association

Jose Luis Cena Solo Exhibition "Nowhere", by Mirus Gallery on Oct 11, 2019 0:12:49 GMT 1,








Mirus Gallery San Francisco is​ pleased to present the solo exhibition of Jose Luis Ce​ñ​a, NOWHERE. Opening reception will be Friday, October 11th 7- 10 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through November 9th, 2019.

“The painting has a lot of intuition. That intuition is what gives you the magic, the soul, and it is what sets us apart. But only with intuition is not enough ... I have always defended painting as an intellectual process. There are paintings in which I think much longer than I paint.”- Jose Luis Ceña Ruiz
So much of our life revolves around places we will never go and people we will never meet. Media has imagined a fantasy world in which we all willingly participate in— except painter Jose Luis Ceña Ruiz. Instead, he has become synonymous with his paintings, sacrificing his life to the art of seeing beyond the screens whose presence dominates our day-to-day experiences. His work echoes the sounds of the past molding a multiplicity of abstract forms into solitary moments.
“NOWHERE” is a collection of embers from the artist’s existence; his devotion to surpassing the finite. His hand is kinetic; the energy of his marks reverberate through our senses. S​pontaneously born out of a studied understanding, these marks are the ​grounding evidence of tactile experiences that make up our lives. If only we pause long enough to listen, the static of the modern world falls into the background, behind the untamable immediacy of our senses.
“I end the day with the feeling of having been in so many places and lived so many things.” The clock of the modern world runs on hyper speed, and stepping out of the current can feel lonely. Like another traveler on an isolated road, Ceña Ruiz meets the viewer where they are. He offers up timeless counsel on the state of being alone, gleaned from the struggle of walking beyond where the path of culture ends, both everywhere, and nowhere. No matter where you come from, or where you are going, Ceña’s paintings mark a before and an after in the journey.
-Maia Jackson

Mirus Gallery San Francisco is​ pleased to present the solo exhibition of Jose Luis Ce​ñ​a, NOWHERE. Opening reception will be Friday, October 11th 7- 10 pm, and the exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing through November 9th, 2019.

“The painting has a lot of intuition. That intuition is what gives you the magic, the soul, and it is what sets us apart. But only with intuition is not enough ... I have always defended painting as an intellectual process. There are paintings in which I think much longer than I paint.”- Jose Luis Ceña Ruiz
So much of our life revolves around places we will never go and people we will never meet. Media has imagined a fantasy world in which we all willingly participate in— except painter Jose Luis Ceña Ruiz. Instead, he has become synonymous with his paintings, sacrificing his life to the art of seeing beyond the screens whose presence dominates our day-to-day experiences. His work echoes the sounds of the past molding a multiplicity of abstract forms into solitary moments.
“NOWHERE” is a collection of embers from the artist’s existence; his devotion to surpassing the finite. His hand is kinetic; the energy of his marks reverberate through our senses. S​pontaneously born out of a studied understanding, these marks are the ​grounding evidence of tactile experiences that make up our lives. If only we pause long enough to listen, the static of the modern world falls into the background, behind the untamable immediacy of our senses.
“I end the day with the feeling of having been in so many places and lived so many things.” The clock of the modern world runs on hyper speed, and stepping out of the current can feel lonely. Like another traveler on an isolated road, Ceña Ruiz meets the viewer where they are. He offers up timeless counsel on the state of being alone, gleaned from the struggle of walking beyond where the path of culture ends, both everywhere, and nowhere. No matter where you come from, or where you are going, Ceña’s paintings mark a before and an after in the journey.
-Maia Jackson