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The Texture of the Organic:

“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"
2020
$5500
organic form, oil painting, lotus blossom, magnolia blossom, abstract art, contemporary art, contemporary painting
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
2016
$1970
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics, landscape, trees, branches, color theory
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
2016
$1800
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics,
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
2016
$3000
sensual abstract surrealist contemporary organic tree oil painting on canvas
oil on canvas
16" x 20"
2017
$2100
Ancient Language Pt 1
pencil, ink, burning, colored pencil on panel
48" x 12" x 1 1/2"
2015
$3200
Morning Obligations
Oil on panel
24"x30"x1"
2020
$2125
Shelter Me
oil on panel
18" x 24"
2017
$2000
oil paintings, tree paintings, contemporary art, Santa Barbara Train Station
Oil on panel, framed
24" x 13.5"
2017
$1100
vibrant landscape, oil painting, trees, seascape, expressionism
Oil on panel
24" x 18"
2019
$2000
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics, landscape, trees, branches, color theory
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
2016
oil painting, contemporary art, figurative abstraction, flowers, metaphysics, landscape, trees, branches, color theory
oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
2016
$3000
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" x 1 1/4"
2017
abstract, trees, painting, bright, colorful, oil painting
oil on panel
24 x 32 inches
2015
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" x 1 1/4"
2017
Vibrant contemporary urban organic oil painting
oil on panel
42" x 18"
2017
oilpainting, contemporaryart, fineart, trees, abstractart
oil on panel
11 x 11 inches
2016
Arroyo Del Oso Nymphs, Pt. 1
ink, oil, graphite, colored pencil, resin on luan ply panel
36" x 18"
2019
mixed media, contemporary art, contemporary mixed media, wood burning, mythology, surrealism, contemporary abstraction
mixed media on panel
30" x 24"
2017
Freedom Like Music
pencil, ink, burning, on panel
12 x 12 inches
2015
urban organic oil painting contemporary surreal humans turning into trees
oil, graphite on canvas
16 x 20 inches
2014
Boundaries
pencil, ink, burning, colored pencil on panel
24 x 12 inches
2015
$650
Paradise Lost, figure painting, contemporary oil panting fine art abstract surrealism
oil on panel
30" x 42" x 1.5"
2017
trees, oil painting, abstract representation, street art, blue painting
Oil on panel
Diptych, 36 x 24 inches
2016
mixed media, organic, abstract, mythological
mixed media on panel
24 x 30 inches
2015
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes and arboreal motifs.
oil on panel
24 x 30 inches
2014
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes and arboreal motifs.
oil on panel
24 x 30 inches
2014
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes
oil on panel
24 x 30 inches
2014
$1875
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes
oil on panel
20 x 48 inches
2014
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
2013
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes and arboreal motifs.
oil on panel
36 x 48 inches
2014
$4500
trees, drought, abstract, oil painting, mythology, inversions, oaks, triangles, greens, browns, blues
oil on panel
42" x 32" x 1.25", diptych
2017
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 inches
2013
$3200
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 inches
2013
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
2013
Abstract surrealist contemporary oil painting with mythological themes.  Zeus. Trees.
oil on panel
48 x 40 inches
2014
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 inches
2012
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
2011
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 inches
2012
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 inches
2011
Jordan Quintero Painting Contemporary Figurative Painting Surrealist Trees
oil on panel
24 x 36 inches
2011
West of the Misissippi
pencil, ink, burning, on panel
12 x 12 inches
2015