Juan Araujo’s work often begins with photographs he takes of a physical site, or with representations in books and archives, which then become source material for paintings. Since 2004 he has worked frequently with architectural locations, focusing primarily on private mid-century residences and their surroundings that exemplify Latin American Modernism. By reproducing fragments from urban images, many of them facades of different types of architecture, he makes visible a tension between the desire to represent and the manufacture of visual stereotypes. Through the symbiotic relationship between the paintings and the buildings he appropriates, Araujo informs the way we think about architecture, and about Modernism more generally. The works can be viewed as personal reflections, but the opportunity for universal interpretation is equally strong; they are a stunning record of one artist’s determination to observe and question modern life.