Visual Art – Vancouver
I was Born in Caracas Venezuela on a brisk morning of March 30th 1982, the same year E.T the Extraterrestrial was attempting to call home. Raised in company of my younger sister, my loving stay at home lawyer mom and my father, a retired congressman who discovered a passion for carving reclaimed wood.
A Baccalaureate in Communications was completed In 2004 and I worked in video and film production for the best part of five years.The political tides were changing in Venezuela and I took the difficult decision of leaving my country. Canada became my calling during the fall of 2008. Stephen Harper was the Prime Minister, the world was facing an economic slump and against all odds, at the end of the spring of 2013 I received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design with a major in Sculpture. Since then, I have been in a constant search for the true meaning of the soft wind caressing my face, the tears that fall upon watching a moonrise or the visual delicacy of airborne ice crystals atop of the Rocky Mountains on a sunny winter day.
I consider my work to be in part, a postmodern response to the ideals of Geometric Abstraction, an artistic movement that I became familiarized with during my formative years in Caracas, my home city. At the same time it seems to express the aftermath of the failed Utopia, as a sort of bi-product of the evolution of the young Venezuelan democracy that relied heavily on the “Geometry of Hope” as an artistic and ideological flagship of aesthetic norm and social shaping.