About

Umaña’s “hybrid paintings” combine glazed ceramics on painted canvas and fuse together conflicting styles—mess and order, biomorphic and geometric, thin and thick, symmetries and asymmetries, matte and sheen. Influenced by Indigenous traditions, the complex cultural landscape of Latin America, and the natural landscape and memories shared with his mother, this new series of paintings marks a dramatic shift away from his pure, non-objective geometric abstraction to a practice more deeply rooted in personal history, cultural identity, and mysticism.

For Umaña, abstraction has been a way to …