
Spotlight Artist
Homero A. Hidalgo
West
Artist Statement
Flatness and perspective compete at the right spot, projecting
sensory cues through mark-making, barnacled forms, and
gestural mass. The subjects and themes presented allegorically
can range from the landscape and garden to eyeballs and
footprints. Color and pattern are dragged, reluctantly, to produce
a complexity of space, light, and character. The idiosyncratic
approach to art history allows for disparate amalgams, where
Beetlejuice’s hair and the background of Goya’s The Third of
May can flow right into a sincere study of themes from the past;
sometimes a crude or elemental gesture is exposed when these
themes are allowed to be translated and connected to us now.
Enchanted fogs walked on by fingers, a primitive jester’s crooked
gardenlike smile, black icebergs with bricked-up horizons, nature
marking an X on an ancient unrecognized culture. Paul Klee might
as well have been Jesus crucified by scleroderma.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections


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