NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent’s Daughters announced the representation of New York-based artist, Carlos Rosales-Silva following his debut Los Angeles solo exhibition, Border Logic earlier this year. Sargent’s Daughters will be presenting a solo booth of new works by Rosales-Silva at The Armory Show 2023.

Rosales-Silva’s works juxtapose a variety of textures, further defined as fields of saturated color and inter-locking abstract forms. These varied surfaces include the stucco-like impasto of acrylic paint blended with particles of glass and stone, the hard edge of machine-cut plastic, and the roughness of individually placed rocks. Though the compositions are occasionally on the edge of being recognizable as architecture or landscape, the shapes resist categorization as foreground or background and instead produce a space of disorientation.

Rosales-Silva is deeply interested in and inspired by the artists and architects who worked in the mid-twentieth century and cited European modernism’s original sources in Indigenous design, referencing traditional Mexican craft and material culture. In particular, Rosales-Silva references Max Cetto, who fled Nazi Germany and continued his Bauhaus-trained architectural practice in Mexico, Juan O’Gorman, who adorned UNAM with its iconic stone mosaics, and Ricardo Legoretta, student of Luis Barragan, who built one of the most influential and sought after commercial architectural firms in North America. Josef Albers, a student of the Bauhaus and one of the most recognized modernists in Western art history, was obsessed with Mexico and in his work on color theory, influenced by Mexican art, he posited that the way we perceive a color is by seeing the colors which surround it. In turn, Rosales-Silva has been profoundly influenced by this concept of interdependence.

Carlos Rosales-Silva was born on the border of the United States and Mexico in El Paso, Texas. His studio practice considers the vernacular culture in the American Southwest, the western canon of art history, and the political and cultural connections and disparities between them. Carlos graduated from The School of Visual Arts (New York, NY) with a Masters in Fine Arts in 2020 and received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas Austin (Austin, TX) in 2010. He currently lives and works in New York, NY.

Carlos has exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico. He is represented by Ruiz Healy Art in Texas. He has been an artist-in-residence at Abrons Art Center in New York, NY (2021); Residency Unlimited in New York, NY (2020); Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (2018); and at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY (2017). Recent solo exhibitions include Border Logic (Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA), Sunland Park (Ruiz Healy Art, New York, NY), Borderland (The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY), Norteña (Sadie Halie Projects, Minneapolis, MN), amongst others. Rosales-Silva has participated in group shows at Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), North Loop (Williamstown, MA), Seasons LA (Los Angeles, CA), Latinx Project at NYU (New York, NY), White Columns (New York, NY), Ruiz Healy Art (San Antonio, TX), Beverly’s (New York, NY), My Pet Ram (New York, NY), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), amongst others. Rosales-Silva’s work has been reviewed by ARTnews, Artnet News, Artspace, Hyperallergic, Glasstire, Whitehot Magazine, amongst others.