Angel Otero, Morning After, 2026; Limited Edition Print

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Angel Otero is an artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores themes of memory, identity, and personal history. Moving between abstraction and figuration, his work employs innovative material processes to examine the ways in which memories are fragmented, reconstructed, and transformed over time. Based in New York and Puerto Rico, Otero is best known for his Oil Skins series, in which layers of oil paint are applied to glass, peeled away, and reassembled into new compositions. His more recent works continue to expand the possibilities of painting, through dreamlike imagery and richly textured surfaces. Otero's work is held in major institutional collections, including those of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 

Morning After depicts a chair emerging from a dynamic landscape of swirling colors and accumulated gestures. Partially obscured by expressive passages of blue, orange, and yellow, the familiar domestic object serves as an anchor within an otherwise shifting composition, suggesting the lingering traces of someone who once occupied the space. As Otero explains, "I'm interested in that moment suggested by the title—the morning after—when traces of an experience remain, and you begin piecing together what happened. The work holds that tension between presence and absence, order and chaos. The chair becomes an anchor within a shifting landscape of color, movement, and accumulated marks." For this limited edition series, the artist will embellish twenty prints with hand-collaged chair elements, creating subtle variations in color, composition, and gesture.

Angel Otero
Morning After, 2026
Archival pigment print
16.6 x 24 inches
Limited edition of 20 with 5 APs + 1 PP
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
$2,000

Of ART FOR CHANGE's initiative to support Free Arts NYC, Otero adds, "Art has the ability to create connections, offer new ways of seeing, and provide a sense of possibility during difficult moments. I know firsthand how transformative creative expression can be, especially for young people learning to understand themselves and the world around them. Organizations like Free Arts NYC create opportunities for children and families to engage with creativity in meaningful ways; they provide space for imagination, confidence, and self-discovery to flourish."

ART FOR CHANGE will donate a portion of proceeds from each print sold to Free Arts NYC, an organization that provides underserved children and families with access to arts education and creative experiences through community-based programs.

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