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12 hours ago

Mexican art world protests over plan to send Frida Kahlo masterpieces to Spain

The export of a significant Mexican art collection to Spain has caused outrage among cultural professionals in Mexico.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago
Photography

The shadows, the figures playing basketball I waited for the magic to appear then it did': Jose Luis Morales Martin's best phone picture

Jose Luis Morales Martin captures the interplay of architecture and photography, emphasizing the emotional connection and artistry in both fields.
fromThe Nation
3 days ago
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Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The shadows, the figures playing basketball I waited for the magic to appear then it did': Jose Luis Morales Martin's best phone picture

Jose Luis Morales Martin captures the interplay of architecture and photography, emphasizing the emotional connection and artistry in both fields.
Photography
fromThe Nation
3 days ago

Alejandro Cartagena's Mexico in Flux

Photographs capture the transformation of landscapes and suburban growth, reflecting themes of isolation and environmental change.
Film
fromKqed
1 day ago

BAMPFA Spotlights Lucrecia Martel's Parables of Middle-Class Desperation

Martel's films challenge perceptions of reality, exploring themes of privilege, colonialism, and the disconnection between adults and children.
fromItsnicethat
3 days ago

Bravas Graphix are the rave connoisseurs behind some of Brussels' most explosive posters

"We're constantly striving to strike a balance between work that respects academic rules of composition, established visual codes and good readability, with something more spontaneous, adventurous, playful, even naive."
Typography
fromItsnicethat
4 days ago

Elisava's Master's in Graphic Design is about what design can do for others, and what you can do for design

Elisava's Master's in Graphic Design is ingrained with societal, cultural and critical contributions to the creative industry, going beyond its aesthetic output while fostering self-awareness in creatives.
Barcelona
fromBBC
3 days ago

More than the Score - David Bellion gets creative in Paris - BBC Sounds

David Bellion spent over a decade in top-flight football, playing for clubs like Manchester United and Sunderland, before becoming Red Star FC's creative director, focusing on brand development and cultural connections.
English Premier League
fromThe New Yorker
4 days ago

Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortazar

Valeria Luiselli, an acclaimed author, discusses the intricacies of Julio Cortázar's 'The Night Face Up,' highlighting its themes and narrative structure that intertwine reality and dreams.
Books
Renovation
fromItsnicethat
5 days ago

"Not too design-y": Third Place Zine is a playful publication about city life that's built for everyone

Third Place's second issue explores how third places foster mobilization and unity through joyous stories and a playful design.
fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

The Rise of a Spanish-Language News Influencer

Espina humorously admitted to oversleeping on a significant news day, stating, 'Breaking news, mi gente! I can't believe it.' His videos celebrated Maduro's fall but also expressed concern about the complexities of the situation.
US Elections
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

Anna Ferrer Transforms Tradition in Enchanting New Video: Los panes los hijos - KALTBLUT Magazine

Anna Ferrer's fourth album, PA, intertwines her family's bakery heritage with experimental folk music, creating a unique sonic experience.
fromThe Nation
1 week ago

In "Bomarzo," the Renaissance Man is a Monster

"One must put himself in the period... crime had a certain familiarity from its repetition through time.... That's what they were like, unscrupulous. So was I. And since we are speaking about it, so was the Renaissance."
History
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

Video: The Aching Power of Abraham Vazquez

Abraham Vazquez has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he's performing.
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Berlin
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

Pedro Almodovar: My modesty has crumbled. Now I feel more naked'

Pedro Almodovar expresses mixed feelings about his latest film, Amarga Navidad, revealing personal exposure and positive initial reactions.
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 weeks ago

Taller Agropoetico - Foresta Collective / Atelier Poem

In Cabranes, Asturias, Atelier Poem has realized the Taller Agropoetico for Foresta Collective—a space that integrates agricultural practice with pedagogy.
Agriculture
fromArtnet News
2 days ago

The Printmaker Who Became a Hero of Mexican Cultural Identity

Frida Kahlo, during her 1933 trip to New York, created a colorful haven in her hotel room by covering the walls with prints by José Guadalupe Posada, which depicted sensational news and political imagery.
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fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 week ago

Sound of the Week: CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso - FREE SPIRITS - KALTBLUT Magazine

The album showcases an audacious blend of trap, rock, pop, and experimental elements, all infused with a refreshing emotional honesty.
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Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 weeks ago

with a pavilion crafted through collective embroidery, izaskun chinchilla tests urban utopia

Utopian thinking emerges through small-scale collective craft practices like embroidery rather than ambitious masterplans, creating tangible contributions to better communities.
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fromwww.amny.com
3 days ago

Grimanesa Amoros and the architecture of illumination

Light is a powerful force in art, transcending culture and language, and is essential to understanding perception and truth.
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fromHyperallergic
5 days ago

Frida, Diego, and Raphael

The largest-ever Raphael exhibition in the U.S. opened at The Met, showcasing 170 works over eight years.
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fromHyperallergic
6 days ago

Juan Usle's Childhood Shipwrecks

Juan Uslé's retrospective at Museo Reina Sofía showcases his evolution from a traumatic childhood memory to a vibrant artistic career.
#picasso
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Furious row erupts over Madrid site of one of Robert Capa's most important pictures

Madrid's conservative city council abandoned plans for a Robert Capa museum at a historically significant bombing site, instead converting it into a youth center with minimal historical commemoration.
Renovation
fromColossal
4 weeks ago

Alvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

Álvaro Urbano sculpts plants from metal and paint to preserve fleeting moments of nature that would otherwise disappear within days or minutes.
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

inside the surrealist universe of late artist pedro friedeberg, creator of the iconic hand chair

Pedro Friedeberg, Mexican surrealist artist and architect known for ornate drawings and hand-shaped chairs, passed away at 90, leaving behind six decades of work blending gothic architecture, optical patterns, and symbolism.
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fromGothamist
5 days ago

A one-man psychedelic art empire thrives in Brooklyn

Alex Aliume's Brooklyn studio attracts thousands of visitors with his unique glow-in-the-dark art and immersive experiences.
Madrid food
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Goya's last mystery is called Rosario Weiss

Goya's Black Paintings inspired Sergio del Molino's book exploring the artist's legacy through the story of Rosario Weiss, the daughter of Leocadia Zorrilla who became Goya's student and artistic heir.
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fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Remembering Asher Remy-Toledo, Media Art Luminary

Asher Remy-Toledo was a significant cultural producer in New York, fostering community and experimentation in media art until his passing at age 62.
#pablo-picasso
Photography
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

Review of Graciela Iturbide at C/O Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Graciela Iturbide's retrospective explores how myth, death, and indigenous Mexican cultural practices shape her photographic vision of life's duality.
Arts
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

The new life of hand-painted signs in Mexico

Sign painting in Mexico City has surged in popularity following the removal of street signs, leading to increased interest and new opportunities for artists.
fromArtforum
1 month ago

Foto Estudio Luisita

For the Escarrias-petite sisters of African descent born ten months apart in Cali, Colombia-commercial photography was in their family DNA. Their parents established a studio in their hometown that was overseen by their mother after their father's early demise. The siblings learned the family trade, and when they fled the country's civil war in 1958, they quickly reestablished the studio in Buenos Aires.
Photography
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fromArtforum
2 weeks ago

A Hard Sell: on Mexican art in the age of austerity

Mexico's Fourth Transformation government has drastically cut arts funding and framed contemporary art as elitist, forcing private initiatives to sustain public cultural institutions.
#joan-miro
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fromJuxtapoz
2 weeks ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Private Nightmares: Francisco Rodriguez @ Baert Gallery, Los Angeles

Rodriguez paints memories of vanished places using flattened compositions and muted palettes informed by historical artistic traditions, exploring contemporary anxieties through figures seeking escape from digital isolation.
Arts
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L'il Tableaux

Artist Pejac uses graph paper's geometric grid to create trompe-l'œil illusions that challenge spatial perception and explore depth and movement beyond traditional two-dimensional representation.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain

The Reina Sofia's new rehang opens, quite pointedly, with a painting of a detained man sitting, head bowed and wrists shackled, as he waits for the arbitrary hand of institutional bureaucracy to decide his fate. The picture, Document No , was painted by Juan Genoves in 1975, the year Francisco Franco died and Spain began its transition to democracy after four decades of dictatorship.
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fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortes

The art world lost several influential figures this week, including the inventor of the iconic Hand Chair, a Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of Colombia's national museum.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Brutal, vibrant and creative: capturing the soul of Latin America in 100 photographs

Latin America balances a history of violent subjugation with a resilient, culturally rich identity expressed through art, photography and transnational solidarity.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Prado chief says Madrid art museum doesn't need single visitor more'

In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velazquez's Las Meninas and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, was visited by 3,513,402 people, an increase of more than 56,000 from the previous year. Visitor numbers have risen by more than 816,000 over the past decade. While some museum bosses would be toasting such a success, the Prado's director, Miguel Falomir, is treating it with caution. The Prado doesn't need a single visitor more, he told a press conference on Wednesday.
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fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Making publications into playgrounds for design: Madeline Montoya on the creative practices behind Byline and Bloomberg Businessweek

Madeline Montoya uses holistic, flexible brand and editorial design—combining type, motion, and web design—to turn publications into playful design experiences.
#contemporary-art
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Reshapes Walls And Spaces With Explosive Typographic Murals That Turn Buildings Into Giant, 3D Messages

A diverse collection of contemporary visual artworks and projects showcases imaginative sculptures, illustrations, modified objects, and installations spanning surreal, tribal, reclaimed-material, and whimsical themes.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Artist Tony Sandoval Treats Watercolour As Weather Rain, Mist And Stains That Roll Across The Page

A diverse curated showcase of visual art, design, photography, illustrations, and vintage media spanning contemporary and historical creative works and practical lifestyle lists.
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fromFuncheap
3 weeks ago

Free Art Showcase: Massimo Mazzon's "Synthetic Realism" (Menlo Park)

Massimo Mazzon showcases 'Synthetic Realism,' blending classical oil techniques with digital aesthetics to explore modern representation and perception of texture.
Film
fromMission Local
2 months ago

S.F. poet Alejandro Murguia stars in new documentary, and the Mission gets its close-up

Keeper of the Fire documents Alejandro Murguía and the Mission District's cultural, poetic resistance to anti-immigrant rhetoric and efforts to impose a single national culture.
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Pedro Stolf is making sci-fi queer again with futuristic graphic design

Massaranduba, the small agricultural town in the south of Brazil that Pedro grew up in is far from sci-fi, but this graphic designer's imagination takes him some place else. From posters, illustration, magazine layouts and typefaces (such as pieces that focus on sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin 's fictional Kesh alphabet), Pedro works digitally with a focus on textures and grit, using dithers and fractals to build upon visual world's textures. His projects are "mood-centred", which begin by assembling references from all over to refine feelings that are conjured up by consuming films, fashion, music and other visual forms.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Soon I will die. And I will go with a great orgasm': the last rites of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a multifaceted, countercultural artist who repeatedly reinvents himself across film, theatre, comics, psychotherapy, tarot, and visual art.
Photography
from48 hills
2 months ago

At SFMOMA, Alejandro Cartagena's photographs strike deep community chords - 48 hills

The 'Carpoolers' series documents Monterrey residents riding in pickup truck beds, capturing everyday life and workers amid cartel violence.
Design
fromDesign Milk
2 months ago

F5: Maye Ruiz on Lamp Sketches, Her Dog Quesadilla, and More

Maye Ruiz channels a lifelong impulse to rearrange objects and a fascination with layered narratives into bold, color-forward residential and hospitality design.
Film
fromKqed
2 months ago

Colombian Farce 'A Poet' Is a Brilliant Critique of Hypocritical Creatives

A Poet follows failed Colombian writer Oscar Restrepo, a farcical yet uncompromising poet who mentors a promising student, blending gritty satire with comedy and tragedy.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 months ago

La Isla: An Intimate Exploration Through the Lens of Matu Buiatti - KALTBLUT Magazine

In a stunning new photobook, La Isla, Argentinian photographer Matu Buiatti invites us into a profound exploration of intimacy, trust, and the human body, framed through the lens of analogue photography. This 18-month project transcends mere image-making; it is a beautifully crafted dialogue about human connection, where the photograph emerges not as a starting point but as the culmination of shared experiences.
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fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

Beatriz Gonzalez - Barbican Art Gallery Review

Beatriz González was a groundbreaking Colombian artist whose work explored power, grief, and memory through painting, sculpture, assemblages, and installations spanning six decades.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Absurd Scenarios Stretch Across Paco Pomet's Uncanny Canvases

From figures with multiple legs and noodles for arms to frolicking trees, Paco Pomet summons the absurd. Known for his uncanny oil paintings rendered mostly in monochrome and enlivened by colorful details of overly stretchy limbs or celestial objects, a sense of nostalgia greets surreal scenarios. The artist often derives his imagery from vintage black-and-white photographs, adding an absurd dimension to history.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

How Wifredo Lam Made Surrealism More Surreal Than the Surrealists | Artnet News

An exhibition of Wifredo Lam is about as safe a bet as the Museum of Modern Art can place and still plausibly say that it's a bet on expanding the canon. The Cuban artist is one of the most famous painters of the 20th century, featured in almost every single key show about Surrealism. MoMA acquired his famous painting The Jungle in 1946, a few years after he made it.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Preview: Imon Boy's "Un poco distraido" @ Yusto / Giner Gallery, Madrid

Imon Boy's solo exhibition transforms diary-like, graffiti-rooted imagery into playful visual narratives blending street energy with gaming, internet culture, cinema, travel, humor and identity.
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fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Planet Circus: Paco Pomet @ Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica

Paco Pomet's paintings fuse realist precision with dark humor and surreal transformations that anthropomorphize nature and expose cyclical, self-consuming human behaviors.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Monkey Christ' is as good as a Picasso | Brief letters

I was intrigued by the similarity between two paintings recently featured in the Guardian: the Ecce Homo as restored by Cecilia Gimenez (Cecilia Gimenez, famed for Monkey Christ' mural mishap, dies at 94, 30 December) and Tete de Femme by Pablo Picasso (1m Picasso portrait up for grabs for 100 in charity raffle, 31 December). Perhaps Cecilia's work is in need of a reappraisal. Steve Shearsmith Beverley, East Yorkshire
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fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Madrid named world's best city for street art for its 425 masterpieces'

Murfin's 'Ninos Perdidos I' in Fuenlabrada won third place in the Best of 2025 Street Art Awards; Madrid named world's top street art city.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Spain's Cosmic Mother of Modernism

MADRID - The most famous portrait of Maruja Mallo depicts the artist covered from head to toe in seaweed. She is crowned and draped with long, rope-like strands of kelp, her arms raised triumphantly like an all-powerful marine goddess. This unconventional photograph, snapped in 1945 by the poet Pablo Neruda on a Chilean beach, was no doubt carefully orchestrated by the Spanish artist, who viewed herself as an extension of her unique work, where female energy is a conduit for natural and even cosmic forces.
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fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

International Rendezvous at Guatemala's Paiz Art Biennial

The 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz, The World Tree, presented 46 artists across ten venues, exploring the tree-of-life myth and its ties to Mayan cosmogony and social interconnectedness.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Carla Fuentes "The Drivers" @ RIO & MENAKA, Madrid

Family craftsmanship and car nostalgia inspire oil portraits that crop vehicle geometries, preserve lost color, and capture journeys, memories, and personal transformation.
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Oscar Murillo: "el pozo de agua" @ kurimanzutto, Mexico City

OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) has developed a multifaceted and challenging practice that spans painting, collaborative projects, video, sound and installation. Through each body of work, the artist probes ideas of collectivity and shared culture, demonstrating a commitment to the power of material presence alongside complex meditations on contemporary society. A focus on the social dimension that sits on the border between performance and events is also central to Murillo's practice.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On's layered textured paintings of white dresses capture wind and light; her solo exhibition runs March 3–29 at Gallery 9 in Los Altos.
fromColossal
2 months ago

Regina Silveira Pieces Together an Evolving Narrative of Latin America

Regina Silveira has spent the better part of three decades considering the relationship between media and meaning, particularly as it relates to Latin America. First presented in 1997, "To Be Continued..." features 100 black-and-white reproductions of photos, newspaper clippings, propaganda, advertisements, and more. Silveira nests each image into an oversized puzzle piece, which cuts off faces and scenes to leave fragments of pop culture icons, flora and fauna, and even the occasional mugshot spliced next to one another.
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fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 months ago

Pedro Pedro transforms The Everyday into Vibrant Inanimate Portraits - Hi-Fructose Magazine

One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In retrospect it looks logical but in the moment it's an epiphany and suddenly it's exciting to explore it. My studio is across the street from Creative Woodworking and they have a box where they put scrap wood for anyone who wants it and it's irresistible to me.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

San Jose artist brings wind, light to bear in her paintings

Ayelet Gal-On presents layered white-dress paintings conveying wind and light; San Mateo County Libraries seeks a Maker in Residence for a six-month STEAM residency.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Szilveszter Mako's Surreal Photographs Reconstruct the Boundaries of Portraiture

Szilveszter Makó 's enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects via light exploration and contrasting earth tones.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

Through Vivid Color, Martin Wittfooth Revels in Surreal Worlds

Martin Wittfooth paints surreal flora-and-fauna scenes that probe interconnection, community, and nature's endurance through enigmatic compositions.
fromCurbed
2 months ago

The Cuban House of Spirits

The artists José Parlá and Claudia Hilda, his wife, live in a former fire station in Fort Greene surrounded by memories of Cuba, which Parlá's ­family fled in 1970 and where ­Hilda lived until recently. "There's a lot of magical realism here, a big mix of Cuban traditions and religion," says Parlá, pointing to an icon of la Caridad del Cobre, the island's patron saint, in the kitchen. "We cannot move her!"
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fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Mike Mitchell Captures Pop Icons In Wholesome Absurdity and Colourpop Minimalism

A wide-ranging showcase of contemporary and historical visual art highlights diverse mediums, techniques, emotional themes, and cultural commentary from posters to sculptures and digital works
fromColossal
2 months ago

Through Tender Paintings and Carvings, Hilda Palafox Revels in Care and Communion

In her manifesto, Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldúa presents what she calls a new mestiza consciousness, which advocates for ambiguity and moves "toward a more whole perspective, one that includes rather than excludes." Groundbreaking when it was published in 1987, this theory pushed queer, feminist, and cultural scholars to consider how identity is both fluid and informed by several overlapping factors. It also helped to lay the groundwork for branches of study like ecofeminism,
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Raul J. Mendez's paranormal bureaucracy * Oregon ArtsWatch

Common Distortion Fields & Everyday Summonings takes form as a solo show of work by Raul J. Mendez at PPSTMM, a gallery tucked away on the second floor of a building off MLK in North Portland. Mendez's work depicts phantasms and figures set against familiar terrains, probing curiosities about the 21st-century American condition. Through his use of an eerie primary color palette, graphite, and other media, Mendez's works explore what happens when operating on sensory instincts and curiosities that lean in an otherworldly direction toward psychic dimensions.
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