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Artist Statement
Photopainting is a style that allows me to use light,
any light, as a color palette to paint works of art. Colors
and shapes are taken from photographs and are manipulated
digitally into abstract images with figurative qualities
that highlight the flavor of life. Later, limited editions
of these images are enlarged using a chemical photographic
process (Type C). The photograph, as we see it, is the
finished painting. This process allows me to expand the
medium of photography to an abstract painterly form.
This work is influenced by everything in life, everything
from a hike by the beach or a song I hear on the radio
to my cultural roots and political events that happen
worldwide. I enjoy the creative process and discovery
that happens when I create these works.
Artist Information:
I was born in Bogotá, Colómbia in 1978.
I now hold a double citizenship from the United States
and Colómbia. I lived most of my early childhood
in different towns and cities in Panamá. I also
lived in Southern California, Madison (Wisconsin) and
I currently live in the Seattle area. I graduated from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor
of Fine Arts degree where I focused on photography and
computer augmented art. I love the process of art making
and the celebration of exhibiting it. I have exhibited
my art in several locales in New Mexico, Oregon, Washington
and Wisconsin.
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