![]() ![]() He started integrating cyanotypes into his own work while pursuing his MFA at San Jose State University. At that time, in his personal practice, he worked mostly digitally, creating gestural, painterly artworks by layering photographs of light in Adobe Photoshop. (All of the works in "Cruising Below Sunset" are overwhelmingly tinted blue.) He was first introduced to cyanotypes while studying photography as an undergraduate at Cal Poly Humboldt, but only began using the method in workshops with his students while working as a teaching artist in L.A. To produce many of the images in the exhibition, Quintana applied one of the oldest photographic printing processes - the cyanotype print, in which the resulting blue color gives the method its name. Disappointed that their photography class focused on Photoshop and digital cameras, he and his friends cleaned up their school's shuttered dark room so that their teacher would train them in using and developing film.Ĭrenshaw Dairy Mart in Inglewood Rethinks the Fine Arts Structure In high school, he began taking photos while riding the bus around L.A., kept a blog, and even had a side gig as an event photographer, documenting backyard parties. Inspired by cartoons, graffiti, music (like hip hop, rock, jazz, and cumbia), streetwear brands, poetry and his older cousins, he grew up exploring many creative forms of expression before landing on photography. The people he finds in the Google Street View images might be irrelevant to the tech company, but to Quintana they are not anonymous - "I may not know them, but I feel a certain connection."īorn in 1991 in Lynwood, California, to parents who settled in Southeast Los Angeles after fleeing the civil war in El Salvador, Quintana knew he wanted to be an artist ever since his kindergarten teacher gave him the word for it. It also became a strong reminder and motivation for Quintana for making his work. "If you zoom in you can see him with his curly hair and his sunglasses, so I kind of sat on that image for a bit." That image became "El jefe making a left off Soul Street onto long beach boulevard (under a g)" (2022) an homage to his dad, who passed away in 2017. ![]() While browsing Google Street View in 2014, he came across his dad, stopped in his truck at the end of the block Quintana grew up on. The torn edges of paper and drip marks from paint reveal the artist's quick and intuitive movements.
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