La Petite Mort Gallery

Oil on canvas, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, Collection of La Petite Mort GalleryOil on canvas, 8 X 10 inches, 2011, Private Collection, New YorkOil on canvas, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, Private CollectionOil on canvas, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, Private Collection, New York.Oil on canvas, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, $400Oil on canvas, 8 X 10 inches, 2011, $350 Oil on canvas, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, $400Ink on paper, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, $150 Ink on paper, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, $150 Ink on paper, 9 X 12 inches, 2011, $150 Watercolour on paper, 8 X 10 inches, 2011, $125Oil on canvas, 30 X 40 inches, 2009, $900Oil on canvas, 40 X 40 inches, 2010, $900Oil on canvas, 30 X 40 inches, 2009, $900 26 x 36 inches, oil on paper, 2008, $700 26 x 36 inches, oil on paper, 2009, $70026 x 36 inches, oil on paper, 2009, $70040 x 28 inches, watercolor on paper, $900Watercolour on paper, 10 x 13 inches, $175Watercolour on paper, 10 x 13 inches, Private CollectionWatercolour on paper, 10 x 13 inches, Private Collection

Boris Torres

I love to paint – to transform the medium (primarily oil paint and watercolor) into images that entice me. The paintings experiment with technical concerns of the medium, while also foregrounding issues that fascinate and confound me within the complexities of sexuality, gender and race. I aspire to celebrate and interrogate these subjects and create images that both challenge and embrace the viewer.

bio:

Boris Torres is a painter originally from Ecuador who grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Veneklasen/Werner Gallery in Berlin, Bowman Bloom Gallery, Parlor Projects, Art in General, Center for Book Arts, LGBT Community Center, Dumbo Arts Center and in Butt Magazine, and he has an upcoming exhibitions in July 2011 at La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa, Canada and in November at La Naranjilla Mecánica in Quito, Ecuador. His work will be published in Art and Queer Culture, edited by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Phaidon Press, 2012.  He currently teaches an undergraduate painting class at Brooklyn College.