Angel Otero is best known for his process-based paintings, collages, and sculptural works that venerate the inherent qualities of his material of choice, oil paint. In Untitled (2017), Otero collages paint and fabric together to explore the potential for abstraction to meaningfully engage memory and identity using line, form, and color. The work adapts the artist’s signature process: painting representationally onto large sheets of glass, scraping the partially dried oil paint from the surface, and then reassembling the resulting “skins” into a layered composition. In this way, paint emerges as a crucial conceptual component, mobilizing ideas of chance, conveyance, and aesthetic vernacular, while the images and themes it visualizes become fragments or parts of a history energized by the material.