Artist Statement

My work can best be described as surrealist abstract expressionism. The content is often an exploration of, or poetic interpretation of a subject or an idea, be that as specific as a portrait or as abstract as an emotion. Though technically self-taught, I have been making art all my life, doing my first oil paintings while in middle school.

I was born in Mexico City, and my earliest influences, and those that continue to show in my work, are of the Mexican painters I was exposed to as a child and young adult, painters like Francisco Toledo, Rufino Tamayo, Siqueiros, Rivera and Kahlo. My family moved to Austin, Texas when I was young, and I grew up between Mexico, Los Angeles, California and Austin. After leaving Austin for New York City in my early twenties, my work organically evolved to blend the colors, volume of forms, motifs and surrealism of my early work with a more contemporary American, international and abstract dialogue. In the layers and suggested imagery I present, I hope that my viewer can co-create with me and find themselves in the work. Each viewer sees different things in these evocative abstractions, and hopefully will have a personal experience with the work.

Though I work across mediums, and dimensions, sometimes drawing, sculpting or printing, I have primarily painted in oil on linen, canvas or paper.