A curation by Kelly Krugman, Curator and Cultural Worker at SAVVY Contemporary - "For me, painting is the most intimate medium. Even when I make paintings that are large in scale. It also has to do with the idea of survival. I always wanted to develop a practice where if everything collapses, falls apart, I can still make work. My practice, even though it has expanded and involves different paths of engagement, remains rooted in drawing. Even in the painterly or the performative, the core is drawing. And the painting is born out of drawing...Drawing feels priceless to me. There’s a certain intimacy and immediacy about drawing on paper that I’ve always been attracted to. I don’t fully understand why, but I find it difficult to release them; I still have all my drawings..." — from The World Close at a Distance (Glean 2, Winter 2023) an Interview by Kathleen Weyts with Oscar Murillo, Colombian painter and artist