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amuel Quinteros contemporary artist

Samuel Quinteros - Contemporary Artist - 青浦居士

"And then one encounters something remarkable. So often these days one can see exactly what a painter is doing, working through 1 + 1 to discover that, yes indeed, it = ... [and you've arrived at the terminus of
that equation before they have]. But with these fresh specimens of the form I have no idea what they are doing (OK, I have some idea), much less how they are doing it. And I can't look away. Real enigmas of an idiosyncratic approach to fusing symbolism and technique rather than manufactured mystery - no one is painting quite like this in Australia right now. They remind me of an observation an old friend made the other day as we chatted over WhatsApp: "so many with mere personality; so few with real character."" 

- Pedro de Almeida, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)

Artist Statement:

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Inspired by dreams, synchronicities, paranormal phenomena and esoteric culture, my work seeks to resolve apparent dualities into a unity of a ‘spectral’ reality. Aesthetically exploring darkness, as many of these strange phenomena are augmented by this condition, which is extended as a metaphor for the often subtler nature of this ‘interior reality’. The world of dreams is like the ever-present backdrop of constellations of stars in the sky that are invisible during the day, but in order to become visible require darkness, which is like a quieting of consciousness. Many psychical phenomena seem to be of a diaphanous nature that is often crowded out by the coarseness of physical reality and the noise of our day to day habitual consciousness. I believe that in the stillness and sensitivity of an aware mind, which I try to embody through my painting, we can attune ourselves to the subtle frequency of these distant and interior suns of the ‘wondrous realm of night’. 

Samuel Quinteros (b.1992, Australia) graduated with honours from Sydney College of the Arts in 2013. He has exhibited extensively in Australia, and internationally in New Zealand, Singapore & Japan. Quinteros was awarded the Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship (2011), the Australia Council Visual Arts Travel Fund (2013), the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship (2015), was a finalist in Perth Institute of Contemporary Art's Hatched 2013, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2017), and The Shirl National Youth Portrait Prize (2017). He has formerly been represented by Galerie pompom (Sydney), with four solo exhibitions between 2014 - 2020, and has recently been working with Redbase Gallery, Sydney.

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