<Ghosts and suitors> Mixed Media collage 11" x 14" (27.9 x 35.6cm)
The son of an immigrant to Chicago from Colombia, South America.His experiences are the product of the integration and movement of Chicago’s populations, the artifacts that groups of people have left behind in the still identifiable ethnic neighborhoods, and the points where cultural identities have overlapped and melded.
Standard American Series: Standard American explores the natural intrigue of finding and handling an object to consider its history.This group of work contemplates the most humble of human remains: old matchbooks from junk shops, antique postcards and books, sheet music from my his great aunts collection, cracker jack toys that belonged to his mother and other objects once treasured, lost and resurrected.By collaging these elements amid drawings and other media, he creates small relationships to arrive at a whole image.Like delicate strands of DNA, these tiny pieces, in combination hold the key to unique identity.This identity reflects the best and worst of Americans, the common as well as the fantastic.These inevitable contradictions are the foundation on which identity is build.
EDUCATION
2003 BFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
SOLO/TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Soot Covered Reverie", GardenFresh, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Meeting <2.0>, The Conference Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Next Art Fair", Allegoric Space, Chicago, IL "Alchemy; Collage and Assemblage", Sante Fe, NM 2007 "Aqua Art Fair" Adam Baumgold Gallery, Miami, FL "All the Tribes of Birds Sang", Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL "Bridge Art Fair", Allegoric Projects, London, UK "Drawn to the Edge", Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY "Everything but the Kitschen Sync", La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL "Nova Art Fair", Big Cat Press, Chicago, IL "Printer's Proofs", Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL "Art LA" Linda Warren Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2005 "Minatures and Multiples" Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
