El Bosque

El Bosque is a solo exhibition by Houston-based, Venezuelan-born artist Gerardo Rosales, featuring new paintings that navigate the entangled realms of queer solitude, desire, and ecological refuge. In Rosales’s lushly patterned worlds, hybrid creatures—part human, part animal—emerge from vibrant fields of flora and ornament, while serpentine forms wind through dense compositions like maps of cruising paths and life’s nonlinear journey. Drawing from Latin American craft traditions, Gio Ponti’s architectural geometry, and the codified aesthetics of queer subculture, El Bosque invites viewers into a forest of symbols where beauty camouflages critique and myth becomes a mode of survival.