I was invited to be part of this show at 1988 Gallery in San Francisco, the theme is open but all the works are in paper. I did five new pieces from a series called "Maquinaria Interna" all in coffee and ink on 7X10" paper. Inspired in part by the day of the dead, yes the mexican celebration.
Pieces created for the show Kokeshi running from November 3rd to December 17th at Subtext Gallery in San Diego. If you are by don't miss the show, a lot of kick ass artists are showing, I feel very lucky to be part of it. I did a Zombie Kokeshi and Space Man Kokeshi, both are acrylic on wood.
Hopefully this is the first one of a series for this musicians-portraits tribute I'm planning to do. Let's see if the time is generous with me in order to complete the project. Here you go Mr. Joey Ramone
This is a recent piece part of an art gallery display organized by Zack Cochran. This is to raise funds for build a skate park in Atlanta and apparently people like David Carson, Tim Biskup, Shepard Fairey, Sage Vaughn, Duncan Jago, Chris Pastras are going to paint decks for this exhibition. So excited to be part of this!
This is a piece I created as part of a benefit music tour organized by the musician Barbara Trentalange. She invited several artists to create a piece inspired by one song of the album, mine was the titled "Monster". The piece will be film and projected behind the performance on the stage and will be auctioned off at the end of the tour to donate part of the sales helping Powerful Voices, an organization that helps at-risk teenage girls.
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.
