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Each of these five lush, elegiac, monumentally sized paintings is in memorium
to a person Roberto Juarez loved who has recently died: his niece; her mother,
the artist's sister; and three close artist friends, all of whom died of
AIDS. The garden-like paintings, composed of rice paper, peat moss, charcoal,
and paint on canvas, are visionary expressions of a peaceful garden. The
works allow the viewer to visually and emotionally enter into a peaceful
and ethereal journey. The paintings were on view to coincide with the group
exhibition Out of Eden, which focused on the garden site. The suite
of paintings are part of the Kemper Museum's permanent collection. |
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