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The lush, bravura paintings of Spanish artist Jorge Galindo (b.1965) move between gestural abstraction and figuration, incorporating elements of collage. The painter, who lives and works in Porto, Portugal, has described his expressionistic style as “dirty pop.” In Galindo’s hands, this idiom brings together various chapters of twentieth-century painting—the collage of synthetic cubism, the aggressive and immediate brushwork of Willem de Kooning, and the commodity critique and juxtaposition of Haim Steinbach—as well as the Renaissance genre of still life. In the early 1990s, Galindo studied …