statement

My initial training as a photographer has been crucial to my interest in the idea of the vestige: a sign referring to what no longer exists. Practically all my work has to do with this aspect and has generated the production of works ranging from photography and painting to manipulations of surfaces in architectural settings.

In proposing the vestige as the presence of the nonexistent, what I visually portray is a cancellation. I try to represent that which we will never be able to see directly, that which will always be invisible. Inspired by my personal fears and desires I am currently working on a series of works that have to do with trying to understand our contradictory nature. I want to consider the artist as the intermediary between the painterly surface, wall or plane -the receptacle of actions and events that trigger a sense of material being and presence- and the spectator. Because the vestige signals a physical presence, I often use techniques that involve pressure; layering and accumulation; subtraction and discharge.

The series Paradise Lost is the outcome of a reflective study on regret and loss. The works were made on paper and designed to spark multiple interpretations centered on the tragic acknowledgement of our existence, while exploring the way individual paintings can affect the space and its relationship to the viewer.

bio

born: 1973, Mexico City

education

Pratt Institute, MFA, 2010
Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, La Esmeralda, BFA, 2000
Escuela Activa de Fotografia, Diploma, 1996

selected awards/honors

Artist In Recidency (AIR), Governors Island, New York, 2014
ArtePreneur Professional Development Program, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), 2013
Jovenes Creadores Grant, National Fund for Culture and Arts (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA), 2005-2006
Residency-Grant, Taller-exposicion de Pintura Iberoamericana, Madrid, Spain, 2001

selected publications

Studio Visit, A Juried Selection of International Artists, Vol. 21, The Open Studio Press, p.55, 2012
Folio, A literary Journal at American University, Spring 2009, Washington, D.C., Department of Literature American University, p.33-34, 2009

selected solo or two-person exhibits

210 Gallery: Paradise Lost, Brooklyn, New York, 2012
Tecnologico de Monterrey: La huella de lo ausente, Santa Fe Campus, Mexico City, Mexico, 2005
Museo de la Cultura Potosina: Abstracciones, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2000

selected group shows

Sideshow Gallery: Nation III: Circle the Wagons!!!, Brooklyn, New York, 2015
Museo Universitario del Chopo: Horror en el Tropico, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014
Flanders Gallery: In The Flat Field, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2011
Museo Carrillo Gil, Barajar y dar de nuevo, A la pared, Mexico City, Mexico, 2006