I am a Neoexpressionist concentrated in figurative art. The female figure embodies the principal object of my work, giving me the ability to play with movement and lend form to his (my) compositions.
I was born in Vinces, Ecuador on April 17, 1942, and studied at the Universidad Central del Ecuador -Escuela National de Bellas Artes in Quito. My first exhibition was in 1969 at the Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I consider myself an artist of the tropics, loud, colorful, and full of life, visible in the reds, oranges, and yellows used in my work.
My arrival in New York in the late 1970s, however, was transformative, and my paintings evolved from naturalist depictions to abstract forms of the human figure. Aiming to create works of exceptional poetic sensibility has kept me in a state of perpetual evolution as a painter. Figures, colors, and shadows all reflect my emotions, moods, anxieties, and dreams, and signal my fascination for the display of power and confidence in body language, as well as the expressiveness of the eyes.
I aim to innovate with forms, themes, and ideas; moreover, my experimentation opens my work to political, philosophical and even religious interpretations. I have exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, New Jersey City University, the Casa de la Cultura, Guayaquil (1986), Museo Arqueológico del Banco del Pacifico, Guayaquil (1997), and the Consulado General del Ecuador, New York (1999) and elsewhere.
