Santiago Uribe-Holguín's work has been in constant growth throughout his career. He has always expressed an interest in layers and first began exploring them through the use of materials such as sand and marble dust. He is currently delving into color and abstraction through oil painting, a process that began back in 2017 with his series Immersions. In it, the artist sought to reveal what lay beneath the intense colors and ambiguous shapes he was working on, occasionally allowing certain shades to peer from beneath a veil of diluted paint.
After a few years of continuing down this path, his recent works show the progress his ouvre has undergone since he first embarked on this exploration. Uribe-Holguín has now mastered the potency of his stroke, the way in which his palette harmonizes upon paper or canvas. No piece is like another. Although they are similar in style, they are not reproductions or imitations of each other. They are each unique expressions that through the artist's distinct selection of shades, and particular use of gesture and form, awaken different sensations at the moment of being contemplated.