Justin Ortiz: Will I Live Again presents paintings and works on paper in which a recurring figure moves through fractured cities and ancient faces. Historical imagery — Dürer filtered through Polke, Greek sculptural forms refracted through Rubens and Jordaens — is stripped of context, ungendered, and pushed toward abstraction, treated as raw material rather than authority. Built slowly over amber grounds in greyscale before thin oil glazes reveal the underpainting beneath, the compositions lock early and resist change — foreground and background pressing against each other as the figure persists between them.
