Artwork:
Sitting alone at a party with a cigarette in hand, as a hurricane brews outside. The scene captures the tension between human calm and nature's chaos, the elegance of the 1960s juxtaposed with the impending storm.
Artist Statement:
San Antonio oil painter blending Contemporary Surrealism and Illustration to explore the unraveling American Dream and climate change realities. Contrasting mid-century optimism with environmental collapse using bold 60s colors and high-contrast compositions, creating a collision of nostalgia and disaster. Inspired by National Geographic and global disasters, reflecting on the illusion of promised prosperity, sparked by a 70s LA landslide revealing fragile stability. Paintings depict dreamlike scenes where past comforts dissolve into impending storms, questioning our potential sleepwalk into catastrophe. Painting is resistance and reckoning, transforming helplessness into a visual dialogue to confront the contrast between past and present, hoping art can inspire change.
$1,395
