Last summer 2021, Jorge Galindo had his first major exhibition in the United States, and this year he returns to New York with Verbena, his first solo exhibition of his newest works, at Vito Schnabel. Since then, his work has gained in momentum and has been shown at Nino Mier in Los Angeles, the Hall Art Foundation Schloss Derneburg Museum (Germany), and the Museu Municipal Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (Portugal), where his collaborative work with Pedro Almodóvar was exhibited.
His flower paintings first began in 2009 and after focusing on other projects for over ten years, Galindo came back to them recently, first through his four-hand collaboration with Almodóvar and then alone as, in his mind, there was still a lot left to develop.His collection of vintage postcards, scavenged from numerous flea markets, gave resource to his first flower paintings. Last year’s show digitally scaled up those postcard images and used them to foreground his paintings. In this exhibition, we are introduced to vintage wallpaper as an additional component in his painterly work.