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At the moment my work is mainly driven by three series (two painting series and one conceptual series based on immigration from Mexico and border issues) Please look under "Fine Art" to see and read more about each.
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My work is driven by a constant desire to innovate and explore. I am compelled by the variety and beauty found in nature, as well as the accumulation of imagery and ideas that develop throughout a person's lifetime. The natural world plays a huge role in my attitude towards society, and often forms the subject matter of my art. I am obsessed and in love with nature's seemingly endless ability to adapt and evolve, and I see the creative process as part and parcel of a natural desire to experiment and change. I am also very interested in quantum physics (just starting to learn the basics) and the study of consciousness. With my "before and after life" series, I am beginning to examine the way that these fields might relate to abstraction and artistic exploration, as well as the ways that painting as an art form can act as a modern philosophical and existential medium.
At least for my purposes, the distinction between the abstract and the figurative in art is an unimportant construct. I care about ideas, and I would like to make philosophical paintings that do not surrender to a postmodern abandonment of craft for concept. Although I appreciate formal abstraction as well as conceptual art, I often base works on quick moments of imagination and inspiration, and rarely does my mind function in a way that ignores either figurative subjects or abstract concepts. A square or field of blue is just as much of an object- a thing- a complex construction- as bird or human is, and I find freedom in the varying levels of embedded meaning that my subjects possess.
I feel extremely lucky to have seen different parts of the planet, and I think that the color in my art stems from an unabashed exploration of life in many places- a confrontation of the good, the bad, the foreign and the familiar. Mexico will always be close to my heart, and I'm constantly surprised at the fact that I've lived away from Latin America for nearly 25 years, and yet the place of my birth is constantly emerging from my subconscious mind. I don't choose to make art that looks Mexican, but oftentimes a Mexican aesthetic seems to guide my creative instinct.
We are all lost, swimming in a vast broth of random acts and tangled reactions, and art is a way for me to chart my way through the soup.
At the moment my work is mainly driven by three series (two painting series and one conceptual series based on immigration from Mexico and border issues) Please look under "Fine Art" to see and read more about each.
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My work is driven by a constant desire to innovate and explore. I am compelled by the variety and beauty found in nature, as well as the accumulation of imagery and ideas that develop throughout a person's lifetime. The natural world plays a huge role in my attitude towards society, and often forms the subject matter of my art. I am obsessed and in love with nature's seemingly endless ability to adapt and evolve, and I see the creative process as part and parcel of a natural desire to experiment and change. I am also very interested in quantum physics (just starting to learn the basics) and the study of consciousness. With my "before and after life" series, I am beginning to examine the way that these fields might relate to abstraction and artistic exploration, as well as the ways that painting as an art form can act as a modern philosophical and existential medium.
At least for my purposes, the distinction between the abstract and the figurative in art is an unimportant construct. I care about ideas, and I would like to make philosophical paintings that do not surrender to a postmodern abandonment of craft for concept. Although I appreciate formal abstraction as well as conceptual art, I often base works on quick moments of imagination and inspiration, and rarely does my mind function in a way that ignores either figurative subjects or abstract concepts. A square or field of blue is just as much of an object- a thing- a complex construction- as bird or human is, and I find freedom in the varying levels of embedded meaning that my subjects possess.
I feel extremely lucky to have seen different parts of the planet, and I think that the color in my art stems from an unabashed exploration of life in many places- a confrontation of the good, the bad, the foreign and the familiar. Mexico will always be close to my heart, and I'm constantly surprised at the fact that I've lived away from Latin America for nearly 25 years, and yet the place of my birth is constantly emerging from my subconscious mind. I don't choose to make art that looks Mexican, but oftentimes a Mexican aesthetic seems to guide my creative instinct.
We are all lost, swimming in a vast broth of random acts and tangled reactions, and art is a way for me to chart my way through the soup.
