Gustavo Ramos Rivera, the eternity of a discovery.

May 20, San Jose.

Dylan had swallowed an Energizer it seemed today, so I went out for a stroll to the San Jose Museum of Art a few blocks away and stumbled upon a surprise discovery, the ensuing love-at-first-sight illuminating my day : the Mexican-American abstract painter Gustavo Ramos Rivera.
His colors left me enchanted, the blues especially - glowing turquoises and pale blues, gorgeous blues, my heaven's blues.
The name of the show is Gustavo Ramos Rivera: Eternidades del instante," or eternities of the moment. Not much information on the artist in the introductory panels, only that he grew up in Mexico and in 1969 settled in San Francisco, that he reads poetry and loves jazz, all of which inspires his work (there's more on the web site for the museum.) Rivera's connection to Miro and Diebenkorn is mentioned and the reminiscences are evident in his work - probably why I loved his paintings so much. The color! The color!