Exhibition Announcement / Erick Víquez: Nightglow
Erick Víquez: Nightglow
October 04 - November 15, 2025
5613 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019
Artist Walkthrough & Reception
Saturday, October 4
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Hannah Sloan Curatorial & Advisory is pleased to present Erick Viquez, Nightglow: on view in our Mid-City headquarters from October 04 through November 15, 2025. Join us on Saturday, October 4 at 12pm for a walkthrough with the artist 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. A reception will follow. This marks Erick’s debut solo show in Los Angeles and his first trip to the United States.
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.
To RSVP to the Curatorial Walkthrough on Saturday, October 4 at 12pm email hannah@hannahsloan.com to reserve your spot.
““My interest lies in how to materialize that suspension between the melancholic and the numinous, that silence vibrating in rurality as the echo of a Gothic that is not urban, but bound to the countryside and its atmospheres of veiled threat.””
Portrait of the artist by Juan Tribaldos
/ About
Erick Víquez is Editorial Director for Libros Humildes, where he conducts editorial research on the translation and transcription of literary texts, and Technical Editor for Flores Artificiales, where he conducts artistic research on technical editing and contemporary binding structures and formats. He has served as a research assistant for the Central American Print Collection at the University of Costa Rica and a guest lecturer at the School of Architecture (UCR). His work has been exhibited at Galeria deCERCA and Salita Temporal in San José, Costa Rica, where he was Artist-in-Residence in 2022.
Alongside his practice, he has participated in teaching, research, and editorial work, with experience in book-making, design, and literary projects. His activity extends through exhibitions, collaborations, and publications in Costa Rica and abroad.
His work has been exhibited in Costa Rica, Chile, and London. Nightglow marks the artist’s U.S. debut.
Featured Artwork:
Erick Víquez, Untitled, 2025, oil paint on paper, mounted to board, 18 x 23.5 inches / 46 x 60 cm
“My interest lies in how to materialize that suspension between the melancholic and the numinous, that silence vibrating in rurality as the echo of a Gothic that is not urban, but bound to the countryside and its atmospheres of veiled threat.”
/ Erick Víquez
