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Trying To Be A Tree, Oil Paintings & Mixed Media artwork exploring a Syncretic reading of the Mytho-logistics of Trees, People, and People Transforming into Trees, 2011-2018

“And all at once she [Harmony] understood what myth is, understood that myth is the precedent behind every action, its invisible, ever-present lining.”
-Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, p. 383

/My recent work explores the visual metaphor of human/plant hybridity as a way of examining the possibility of consciousness evolving, if not a conscious evolution.//The painting, drawing and mixed media pieces in this series draw heavily on classical mythological tropes, but give them a fresh stylistic and conceptual rinse.//It feels important to look at the old stories, our psychic and spiritual roots, vis-à-vis the millennial anxiety of my generation, and the eschatological promise/premises of an increasingly dystopian contemporary landscape.
//The trees were our first gods, and in this work, and in this time, I feel we may yet have much to learn from them.// JQ, ‘14


The branching canopy, the root structure, the density of material expression in a painting or a building, the organic development of form and structure in the biological world, the mythic-dramaturgical strings that compose the net of being in our lives and in our minds––these are the things that we must understand, that we must accept, that we must value, if we are going to survive, as a species. This work is an homage to the appearance of the world, its continual becoming, its miraculous existence, and I hope that it can create for you an awareness of this, the preciousness of your life, the serendipity of our paths crossing, the significance of the echo and of laughter, the irretrievable splendor of the real, the ineffable persistence of imagination, the undeniable of connection of everything with everything else.

Esalen
Oil on panel
20" x 30"
$2598
organic form, oil painting, lotus blossom, magnolia blossom, abstract art, contemporary art, contemporary painting
oil on panel
24" x 24"
$2494
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics, landscape, trees, branches, color theory
oil on panel
24" x 24"
$2494
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics,
oil on luan panel
24" x 24"
$2494
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics, landscape, trees, branches, color theory
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
$2494
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel, framed
40" x 30"
$5196
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics, landscape, trees, branches, color theory
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
$2494
oilpainting, contemporaryart, fineart, trees, abstractart
oil on panel
11" x 11"
$524
abstract, trees, painting, bright, colorful, oil painting
oil on panel
24" x 32"
2015
$4711
Morning Obligations
Oil on panel
24" x 30"
$3118
Shelter Me
oil on panel
18" x 24"
2017
$1870
oil paintings, tree paintings, contemporary art, Santa Barbara Train Station
Oil on panel, framed
24" x 13.5"
2017
$1400
Vibrant contemporary urban organic oil painting
oil on panel
42" x 18"
$3273
mixed media, contemporary art, contemporary mixed media, wood burning, landscape, trees, eucalyptus, monarch grove, Pismo Beach, magical realism, surrealism, contemporary abstraction, figurative art, Central Coast, architectural, architecture, organic for
mixed media
36" x 18"
$2805
mixed media, contemporary art, contemporary mixed media, wood burning, landscape, trees, eucalyptus, monarch grove, Pismo Beach, magical realism, surrealism, contemporary abstraction, figurative art, Central Coast, architectural, architecture, organic for
mixed media
36" x 18"
$2805
Arroyo Del Oso Nymphs, Pt. 1
ink, oil, graphite, colored pencil, resin on luan ply panel
36" x 18"
mixed media, contemporary art, contemporary mixed media, wood burning, mythology, surrealism, contemporary abstraction
mixed media on panel
30" x 24"
$3118
mixed media, organic, abstract, mythological
mixed media on panel
30" x 24"
$3118
Boundaries
pencil, ink, burning, colored pencil on panel
24" x 12"
$1247
Freedom Like Music
pencil, ink, burning, on panel
12" x 12"
$624
Ancient Language Pt 1
pencil, ink, burning, colored pencil on panel
48" x 12" x 1 1/2"
2015
$3200
Ancient Language Pt. 2
mixed media on panel
48 x 15 inches
2016
Paradise Lost, figure painting, contemporary oil panting fine art abstract surrealism
oil on panel
30" x 42"
$5455
trees, oil painting, abstract representation, street art, blue painting
Oil on panel, diptych
36" x 24"
$3741
urban organic oil painting contemporary surreal humans turning into trees
oil, graphite on canvas
16" x 20"
$1385
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes and arboreal motifs.
oil on panel
36" x 48"
$7482
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes and arboreal motifs.
oil on panel
30" x 24"
$3118
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes and arboreal motifs.
oil on panel
30" x 24"
$3118
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes
oil on panel
30" x 24"
$3118
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes
oil on panel
48" x 20"
$4156
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel
33 x 33 inches
$4715
trees, drought, abstract, oil painting, mythology, inversions, oaks, triangles, greens, browns, blues
oil on panel, diptych
42" x 32"
$5820
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil, graphite, charcoal on wood panel
36" x 24"
$3118
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel, framed
38.5 x 26.5 inches
$4418
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes.  Zeus. Trees.
oil on panel
48 x 40 inches
$8314
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel, framed
24" x 32"
$3325
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel
36 x 24 inches
$3118
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Treehouse, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel, framed
24" x 32"
$3325
Jordan Quintero, Painting, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Figurative Painting, Mythological Art, Surrealist Art, Urban, Organic, Street Art, Trees, Transformation, Visonary Art
oil on panel
48" x 48"
Jordan Quintero Painting Contemporary Figurative Painting Surrealist Trees
oil on panel
36" x 24"
$3118