Engel Art Studio
Come in.The paintings are best seen one at a time.
A small studio, a considered body of work, and an open invitation to spend some time looking.
This month in the studio
Dancing Fools
Acrylic On Canvas
48 x 48 x 1.5 in
Available
A closer look at one work currently in the studio.
Meet Jorge
On painting
"I am interested in how little a painting can say and still hold an experience."
For more than four decades, architecture taught me to think about space through proportion, geometry, light and the way people experience what surrounds them. Painting gives me another way to explore many of those same questions — with fewer rules and a different kind of freedom.
I do not paint things so much as experiences. I may begin with something remembered, observed or simply held in my mind, then work toward its essential structure through layers of color, shifting gradients and geometric relationships.
The finished painting is not meant to explain that experience. Once it leaves the studio, what a viewer finds in it belongs to them.
See the work in space.
A painting changes when it enters a room — and the room changes with it. See selected works in architectural and interior settings, and imagine where they might live.
Art + SpaceExplore the work
The paintings develop in related bodies of work, but there is no required order. Begin with a collection, a painting, or simply the image that holds your attention.
See All Works
Inside the studio
See where the work takes shape.
The paintings develop slowly through layers, revision, proportion and reduction.
Step inside the studioAn open invitation
If something here stays with you, write and say so.
Questions are welcome. Messages go directly to Jorge, and he answers them himself.
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