It was startling, that monumental glass of water, in what seemed like a simple, if not ritual gesture: water held skyward as if to examine the clarity. Yet Caleb Hahne Quintana, in all his works of tenderness, memory, and fantasy, is about movement. How we move, how things move, how time moves and how legacies move through generations. In his latest show, AURORA, at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles this past fall, the Brooklyn-based painter looked at ebb and flow, reality and fiction and suburbia versus the great American frontier in deeply personal documentation of his own family name, as well as the personal stories linked in his Colorado childhood. By recently adopting his mother’s name “Quintana” and looking at…