New American Paintings

José Delgado Zúñiga

New York, NY

www.studiozuniga.com / @studio.zuniga

My body of work carries a rhythm of the muralist sensibility. I believe thataccumulative, fractured, connected, and stacked. The notions within my paintings express the internal and external politics that occur within my mind and body. I use languages of abstraction and representational painting as textures to depict my connections and attachments as a person and as a Mexican American. For myself, life is momento mori, the constant reminder of my mortality and the experience of dying slowly.

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