Cinematography and a sense of wonder play central roles in Esaí Alfredo's large-scale, enigmatic oil paintings.

Over time these react with negatively charged components of oil called fatty acids, which have been severed from the rest of ...

and how the bristles of a brush work to smear it across a canvas. If you’ve ever examined an oil painting up close, it doesn’t look like a flat 2D image that comes out of a color printer.

appeared to glue themselves to the wall space beneath the painting. Directly above them, abstract smears of viscous soup dripped down the glass covering the masterpiece. The oil-on-canvas artwork ...