I was invited by the talented designer and artist Paul Drohan aka D5ive to mount an exhibition at his space, Gallery 2C in San Diego, CA. Drop by if you are around. I'm showing new work I did for this show and some previous work. Below some of the the new work that's born when Paul suggested me the idea.
A recent solo-show at the Grassy Knoll Gallery. Below you can see a series of some characters I has been exploring more in the "none happy" aesthetic, the pieces are 7"X9" acrylic on paper. This is a tendency I want to explore more.
I'm so excited about my interview and THE COVER!!!!! for the taiwanese magazine DPI, I remember when I discovered the magazine some time ago it was like love at first view, in that time the cover has the gorgeous Mark Ryden's "Rosie's Tea Party" piece. That is such a cool magazine! I thought and now is unbelievable my work is on the cover of the 99th issue, I love it! Thank you Lulu Tzeng (Last Editor) for invited me to be part of it and Sasha Weng (New Editor) for finish the process so well!
Recently I was invited to participate in the Next-Gen "Art for the new AEON" show presented by Copro Nason Gallery. I did three new pieces for this show:
Lonesomeness 10"X10" Acrylic on Clayboard
Naively Happy 10"X10" Acrylic on Clayboard
Sleeping Tight 11.5"X14.5" Acrylic, Ink an Coffee on Wood Panel
If you are on Santa Monica CA drop by! The show is running until August 4, the show seems pretty cool and have amazing artists, I'm so honored to be part of it.
I'm pleased to announce I have five pieces for sale at Blue Flip Art a great place to reach super affordable prints. Also a portion of the sales on my prints goes to Artists for the Arts a non profit association that supports the education for children in Portland Metro-area schools.
I made this as part of a collaborative project called "Gran Luchador" the idea was invite 10 mexican illustrators to create a mexican-wrestler character each one and produce limited series of plush toys, not sure what happened with the project, but I just want to share this. For Masa Crítica studio.
Finally I'm so glad to announce the official release of my online store, was a little difficult cause I setup everything by myself but is done! I have few Giclée Prints now and eventually I'm going to upload more pieces, dependably on comments from people, if you have a particular interest in some of them drop me a line and I'll really consider it to produce prints.
The quality on the prints is superb and the paper very nice, I'm totally pleased with the result.
We did a short video showing the ambient, some people and installations from the agency I work with, pretty much as part of agency presentation for new clients or colleagues. My roll for this piece was build everything you see, so I pretty much did this video. I like the atmosphere you can perceive and there are some appearing of my toys collection.
You can't really appreciate the quality of the graphics for the intro sequence in the YouTube version, so I'm posting a sample here.
Brief story behind this piece: I made sort of collage to animate and produce this, I built the curtains and have to sowed the logo pillow, also I did the paper clouds in a stick to showing the perception of real craft objects, my initial idea was create the real stage with this objects and filmed but the camera hasn't the right quality and we have a lot of problems with lighting. Then I scanned all this objects and create all the same stage digitally and animated on After Effects. The result as you can see is so rich visually, even that is very short I'm very happy with the final look and feel.
This is a small piece I did for my art show, not sure why I kind of have some obsession drawing gorillas in a peaceful situations, maybe I enjoy show the contrast between strongness and fragility together... or maybe I'm over thinking and I draw him just because... not sure. Anyway this is another piece using a new cartoony gorilla. Ink, coffee, acrylic and watercolor on wood panel. Aprox 8" X 6"
Recientemente tuve una entrevista por un excelente proyecto en línea que promueve el diseño y arte en latinoamerica. Gracias a Ernesto Frías por la invitación a formar parte del gran contenido de EX7.
The inaugural group show of Windup Gallery. I'm so excited about this show! seems quite cool and I'm sharing walls with really, really great artists as you can see in the board. I have two pieces in this show. Paquidermo Volador, shown below. And POP! another piece I did some time ago.
Paquidermo Volador | Acrylic on Canvas. If you are interested in one of these pieces contact the gallery for pricing. Windup Gallery 126 W Main Street. Mesa, AZ 85201 480.610.0003
The opening was pretty good, thanks to all my friends and people who dropped by. The art-show will runs all may at The Basil Hallward Gallery in the pearl floor of Powell's Books. Some pieces still available for purchase. In the photo my friend and coworker Tim May.
This a little set of three animals painted with acrylic on 10X10 Canvas frames, each creature in different color. Yes, they are going to live in Bruno's (My son) room. Hope he like them, for now you can see them at The Basil Hallward Gallery on the 3rd floor of Powell's Books.
