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BIO - Born in Antigua, Guatemala January 1977, raised in Southern California since 1986 and currently a resident of New Jersey. Received a Masters Degree in Fine Art from New York Academy of Art in 2009 and in 2004 a Bachelor's Degree from Laguna College of art and Design. STATEMENT - I see myself in figures that are naked rather than "nude," false and vulnerable representing our continuously changing fads and ideas of beauty. I am inspired by strange beauty, the uncommon appeal of a dead rose or dilapidated appearance of rusty metal, the contorted distortion that is found in rigor mortis and the flowing branches of a vivacious tree. I paint the slow decay & birth of human civilization- the silent cry for help in a multicultural post apocalyptic world. The destruction of what was once a pristine brush stroke gives rise to the ruins and the distorted over dramatization of a body suspended in motion. The duality of male and female, life and death, beauty and my distorted interpretation of what that means, fuel the underlying theme of my work. |
CONTACT INFO CELL PHONE: 951.201.7482 JULIO@JSFLORESART.COM Currently a resident of Jersey City, NJ |