statement

All my life I have felt attracted to the shapes of the animals, countless and completely different took me to represent them in a different way. In this work I de-constructed them, drawing their shapes randomly to later find a way to construct them again in a totally different shape. At distance, you will see an animal that apparently looks real but when you get closer you will see many eyes staring at you and clashing trying to dominate other shapes. It is natural law.

Drawing has been my best way to express myself and I find it very natural. What really impress me once, was when I saw some sketches done in graphite by Salvador Dali in which his purity and how clean his line was, inspired me to keep working on mine. I know I am far away from Dali expertise and I do not even want to get there but every time I start a drawing I disconnect from everything. I put care at the beginning but then all becomes mechanical. I play how soft I can do a line.

I do not pretend to be any philosophical in my work. I express what I want to say but I rather let the observer get his own impression of what is starting at.

bio

born: 1980, Bogota, Colombia

education

Maryland Institute College of Arts, MFA Illustration Practice 1rst. year
Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Graphic Design, 1994

selected awards/honors

Queensland Multimedia Awards 2012, 1st place best poster
Tim Burton & Australian Centre for Moving Image 2010. Finalist illustration.

selected publications

Latidos visuales. Best Latin American Illustrations 2013. Illustration included in the annual book
Poster Colombia Positiva. 2006
II Bienal de Afiches de la Cámara de Comercio. 2005

selected solo or two-person exhibits

A 6 Manos, Cultural Space, Exquisite Corpse, the exhibition, Bogota, Colombia, 2013
La Casa Itinerante, Exquisite Corpse, The Exhibition, Bogota, Colombia, 2012

selected group shows

Art Space Dudley, International Post-Artist's Exhibition, London, 2013
Pueblo Viejo Gallery Country Club, 5 Nociones de Arte, Bogotá, Colombia, 2013
El Espacio Gallery Cuba, 33 Festival del Caribe Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2013
Alice in Wonderland ACMI (Australian Centre for Moving Image/Tim Burton) Melbourne, Australia, 2010