Untitled

1971

Virginia Jaramillo’s minimal, curvilinear works reduce the painted image to its most essential elements: surface, color, and line. The pure field of pigment, which the artist describes as “a space filled with life and possibilities,” is enlivened by three precise brushstrokes that wind, divide, and intersect.

The same year Jaramillo painted this work, she was the sole Latinx painter included in The DeLuxe Show, one of the first racially integrated exhibitions of abstract art in the United States. She was also involved with the feminist journal Heresies and formed part of the editorial collective for a 1979 issue titled “Third World Women: The Politics of Being Other.”