New American Paintings

Adrián Aguirre

Mesilla, NM

505.780.5403 (Strata Gallery)

aj.aguirre@gmail.com / www.adrianaguirre.com / @adrianjaguirre / @adrian.aguirre.art

There’s a political agenda in my work. It’s sometimes subtle and other times expressed more overtly. While I’mwork is about connecting the viewer emotionally to the people in a painting or drawing. I take care to capture facial expressions, gestures, and personalities. I often rely on the additive and reductive process in painting and drawing to find the portrait and the figure. While I fully render some parts of the figure, I also like to use loose marks to emphasize movement, activate the space, but also as a vehicle for expressing myself and connecting to the person in the portrait.

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