Photo by @dprince.nj
Photo by @dprince.nj
Photo by @eugene_captures
"Z"
Mixed media on canvas
17"x23"
#Migration as a state of mind and body
Raven dance
Mixed media on canvas
22"22"
2017
Pacific Resistance
Mixed media on canvas
22"x22"
2017
High Tide
Mixed media on wood pannel
2017
Nina
Mixed media on wood
42x48 cm.
2017
MAREA ALTA
MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
2016
EN NOMBRE DEL PADRE
MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
12X12 INCHES
2016
NINA
MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
2016
ALEJANDRA
MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
2016
Doroteo
Mixed media on canvas
20x20 cm
2016
Camouflage 1
Intervened Object
Mixed media on canvas
2015
Oshun
Mixed media on plywood
12x12 inches
2016
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
14x20"
2015
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
14x20"
2015
Obsidian 1
Mixed media on canvas
12x12"
2015
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
12x12"
2015
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
12x12"
2015
Jaguar Head
46x40 in.
Mixed media on canvas
2015
Izalca
Spray Paint on canvas
58x28 inches
2015
Telar de cintura
Mixed media on canvas
30x40 in.
2014
Rumor de nuevos tiempos II
Mixed media on canvas
16x20 in.
2014
Rumor de nuevos tiempos III
Mixed media on canvas
16x20 in.
2014
Sahumeria
Mixed media on canvas
22x48 in.
2015
Curandero
Mixed media on canvas
16x20 in.
2015
N6
Collage on canvas
2015
N1
Collage on canvas
11x14 in.
2014
N2
Mixed media on canvas
11x14 in.
2014
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
152x152 cm.
2015
Fotografía original de Giovanni Palazzo, Museo de la palabra y la imagen MUPI 1983. Mujer combatiente de la brigada Rafael Arce Zablah (BRAZ) Morazan, El Salvador.
N4
Collage on canvas
2014
"El señor de la ferretería"
Mixed media on canvas
2013
"Señora de los cosmeticos"
Mixed media on canvas
2013
Abuelo
Mixed media on wood pannel
2013
N5
Collage on canvas
2014
Huichol
diptych 30"X40"each.
Spray paint on canvas. 2014
Alvaro Menen-desleal
Spray paint on wood
220x120 cm
"Graffiti y letras" art show
El Salvador
2011
"Graffiti y letras" art show
Spray paint on wood
220x120 cm
2011
"Graffiti y letras" art show
Spray paint on wood
220x120 cm
El Salvador
2011
"Graffiti y letras" art show
Spray paint on wood
220x120 cm
El Salvador
2011
Señora de los cosmeticos
Mixed media on canvas
"La Rebusca" art show
San Salvador 2011
Niño
Mixed media on canvas
"La Rebusca" art show
San Salvador 2011
Picachero
Mixed media on canvas
"La Rebusca" art show
San Salvador 2011
Niña con chiles
Mixed media on canvas
"La Rebusca" art show
San Salvador 2011
Vendedora
Mixed media on canvas
"La Rebusca" art show
San Salvador 2011
Telar de cintura
Mixed media on paper
2011
Baru
Mixed media on canvas
2010
La Juanita
Mural for El Tunco surfing community.
El Salvador. CA
2017
Homenaje a Berta Cáceres
OBSIDIAN
Brooklyn Boulders Climbing Gym.
2015
Ofrenda
"Ofrenda" de flores al mar, mural en honor a todas las personas que, al igual que las flores ofrecidas al mar como vehículo, se van en busca de algo mejor, en una corriente casi a la deriva, donde no se sabe dónde o qué deparará, pero ofreciendo siempre las mejores y más bellas intenciones.
La Casa Tomada
San Salvador, 2016
Gallery543 in the Urban Outfitters headquarters.
here is an interview made for the Urbn Community blog.
Brief description of you, your work, and how you got into art:
I try to recreate the urban-tropical culture of where I grew up, in Central America. I’m from El Salvador and I’ve lived and worked in Philadelphia for 2 years.
I got into art through my family; my grandfather is a graphic designer and a painter, my dad and uncle are graphic designers, too. I guess I grew up with the tools and with that incentive to make art. I remember playing at my uncle’s studio, I remember my dad staying up all night to work, always with music playing, and I remember smelling the old coffee, cigarettes, PrismaColor markers and Tempera paint.
My mom is a pastry chef, she makes amazing cakes in any shape possible, I honestly think she makes Cake Boss look like an amateur. At one point, we were all working to bake cakes with my mom, making fondant figures and airbrushing. Both my parents still make art today.
I was born during the civil war--not a good time for art--but despite everything I was very lucky my family encouraged me to keep doing it.
My art has been influenced by revolutionary propaganda, I guess that’s why I feel very attracted to street art and its accessibility. I studied fine art in the National Art Center CENAR, and graphic design in UDB University, but I ended up doing graffiti and street art with my friends. For me, it’s about going to surf very early in the morning, painting all day, and playing music in the city at night.
Can you tell us about the piece you created for URBN, including the inspiration, process and Installation?
The urban piece is inspired by a volcanic eruption.
In El Salvador in 1932 there was a cultural genocide, where the government tried to exterminate indigenous people, their language and their culture.
The ones who survived fled; people said “se enmontañaron,” “they went to the mountains.” To me, they went to the mountains not only physically, but spiritually—they became the mountains and volcanoes. Their culture survived there, hidden from “progress.”
From time to time the mighty volcanoes wake up trembling, and they shake the land. They spit lava and big clouds of smoke, helping us to remember where we come from, and what are we made of as a country.
How did you describe your aesthetic?
I find beauty in nature and people, and the underlying connection between people and nature. It’s that simple.
Do you have a mentor or have you ever had one?
My family and friends are the best mentors.
what are you working on now?
I’m working on illustrations of obsidian stone. The highly traded stone was used in Mesoamerica for daily activities, ceremonial sacrifices, and war, because it made knives, blades, arrowheads, and ornaments.
El Salvador is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Despite the violence, Salvadoran people and land are incredibly beautiful and volatile. I’m trying to show that El Salvador is going through a process not unlike the obsidian:
“A naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. It is produced when felsic lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal growth.”
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Paula, Santo Domingo de Guzman
Going back to my Nahuat roots, we traveled to the town of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Sonsonate, El Salvador, to paint a mural honoring Paula Lopez, a poet, teacher and keeper of the Nahuat language and culture.
Waterfalls, sopa de gallina india, hot chocolate in the mountains, friends and familly.
PAULA TAKETZA SENPA
PAULA TAKWIKA SEJSEMPA
(Paula habla siempre, Paula canta todavia)
Big thanks to Colectivo Tzunhejekat for doing this possible.
https://www.facebook.com/Tzunhejekat/
Weccacoetropical wall
Weccacoe Playground, Philadelphia
2014
Niña con chiles
Bainbridge Street in collaboration with HAHAxParadigm and Friends of Bainbridge Green in Queen Village, Philadelphia. Find out more about the project on www.HAHAxParadigm.org
Tellar de Cintura
Bainbridge Street in collaboration with HAHAxParadigm and Friends of Bainbridge Green in Queen Village, Philadelphia. Find out more about the project on www.HAHAxParadigm.org
Door
Brooklyn 2015
Graffiti Pier
Philadelphia 2015
Los Acmes Wall
La Gloria
El Salvador 2012
Abuela
Montreal 2014
El Cielo Abierto Cartel
Mural and design for the movie "El cielo abierto"
San Salvador, 2012
El Cielo Abierto Mural
Mural and design for the movie "El cielo abierto"
San Salvador, 2012
Los Bichos
Amando Lopez Community, Usulutan.
El Salvador 2012
Danzante
Area 503 graffiti Festival
San Salvador, 2012
"Neto y rubén" and "Lupe"
San Salvador 2010
Izalca
San Salvador 2011
Predicador
"Legibilidad por falta de espacio" show
CCESV
San Salvador 2015
Busero
"Legibilidad por falta de espacio" show
CCESV
San Salvador 2015
