Two Decades of Portraiture is an Exhibit that has been organized and proposed for exhibit at the Austin Central Library Gallery for January-September of 2024.
These works span two decades and various media. The exhibit would show my progress as an artist through the years as well as through medias. The first years were mostly graphite portraits, of a highly technical nature. Then I began learning watercolors and acrylics. Finally, oil portraits became my primary media. This progression will also show a transformation in style, from classical portraiture to casual, from simple expressions to complex notions, from realism to surrealism. At last the exhibit would highlights my work from 2022, 6 surrealistic portraits of the most significant people in my life, each telling their own story.
My work is an expression of the transformation I have made in my own life as an artist. To be an artist is not only to paint pretty pictures, rather to be a living tool of expression and growth. Only then does the life and the story make sense. Only then does the trauma and suffering make sense. For as we forge, so we are forged and purified in the furnace of human experience.
