Painter / Artist
Oscar de la Rocha
Color
Form
Desire
Humor
22 × 28 in
Acrylic on canvas
2026
A playful and cinematic exploration of intimacy, appetite, and performance. A reclining blue figure peels a banana against a warm brown backdrop, balancing humor with quiet sensuality. The exaggerated color palette and cropped composition blur the line between vulnerability and spectacle, turning an ordinary gesture into something theatrical and suggestive.
28 × 22 in
Acrylic on canvas
2026
A quiet study of tension, vulnerability, and self-awareness. The figure folds inward while deep green tones dissolve into shadow, creating a balance between strength and softness. Minimal in composition yet emotionally charged, the painting invites intimacy without fully revealing itself.
SELECTED WORK
40 × 30 in
Acrylic on canvas
2026
Bathed entirely in deep red light, this painting captures a fleeting moment of intimacy within queer nightlife. The figures dissolve into shadow and atmosphere, blurring the line between tenderness, anonymity, performance, and desire inside a crowded room.
PAINTING, FORM, COLOR & DESIRE
Oscar de la Rocha makes bold, colorful paintings that explore the relationship between the body, desire, humor and everyday life. Working primarily in acrylic, he turns familiar forms and objects into playful, expressive images that are meant to feel both immediate and a little unexpected.
14 × 11 in
Acrylic on canvas
2026
A cropped study of the body rendered in warm earth tones against a muted pink field. By isolating fragments of the figure, the painting shifts attention toward texture, softness, and quiet vulnerability rather than identity.
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14 × 11 in
Acrylic on canvas
2026
A simplified still life balancing humor, sensuality, and softness through bold color and exaggerated form. Set against a saturated violet backdrop, the banana becomes both playful and strangely intimate.
11×14 Limited Edition Prints
Six bananas form a vertical column against green — direct, graphic, and unapologetic. The composition leans into repetition as structure, allowing color and shape to command attention without excess.
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