Erick Víquez: Nightglow

Curator & Artist Walk-Through

Saturday, September 27 from 12pm-4pm

Curator & Artist Walk-Through @ 12:00 pm

Reception to follow.

Join us on Saturday, September 27th for a walk-through of Nightglow, with artist Erick Víquez and curator Hannah Sloan. We will discuss Erick's practice and how he developed his new body of work while living and working in the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica.

/ About

Erick Víquez (Cartago, Costa Rica, 1993) is a painter whose practice is grounded in the mythopoetic through observations of landscape, literature, and art history. Much of his work focuses on the nature of memory and time, referencing historical and personal archives, popular culture, and literature, to reflect his deep interest in the gothic, colonial, and violent narratives of Latin American history and culture. His images of domestic settings, both historical and contemporary, as well as the rural and tropical environment of the province in which he was raised, are haunting and ambiguous spaces where familiarity collapses and the disturbing seeps into the everyday. His visual explorations of the jungle, the suffocating heat of the tropics, and social violence past and present, are expressions of a regionally specific gothic, where tropical exuberance coexists with darkness and repression.

In his latest oil paintings, the artist extends his exploration of the Latin American Gothic by painting the night as a terrain of ambiguity and charge. The series locates itself in the rural outskirts of Alajuela Province, where moonlight and artificial glows ominously play across dense vegetation. Paths dissolve, leaves radiate, shadows thicken. What emerges is a distinctly Central American nocturne that fuses atmosphere, architecture, and ecology. Here, light is not a clarifying force. Moonlight and artificial illumination do not soothe or stabilize; they unsettle. They cling to foliage, fracture the dark, and cast the walls of modest homes into spectral relief. The familiar countryside becomes uncanny, transformed into a living threshold in which intimacy and estrangement coexist.