Visionary Materiality
Oscar Murillo: Social Altitude, an exhibit at the Aspen Art Museum, November 23, 2019–May 17, 2020.
EIGHT YEARS ago, the Colombian-born artist Oscar Murillo was cleaning offices in London. Now the art press is calling him the Jean-Michel Basquiat of this century, and his paintings fetch six figures at auction. In 2019 Murillo shared with three others the prestigious Turner Prize (an annual award usually given to a single British artist, but that year awarded jointly to all four nominees). And there’s a lot of coverage about Murillo’s family origins, his studio practice in various media, and his restless international travel as he pursues
