About the artist:
For Darren Cortez, making his paintings is a form of meditation. Cortez attains a contemplative tone through soft brushwork that slowly builds layer by layer, gradually shifting from dark to light and light to dark in a repetitive cycle until the form appears. The emerging symbols are conduits for intrapersonal themes experienced in daily life and the artist’s identity as a first-generation Filipino American.
Darren Cortez was born in 1994 in San Francisco, CA, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Cortez has shown his work in group exhibitions at NOON Projects in Los Angeles, CA, and House of Gul in Portland, OR.
His work has been featured in the No. 175 Pacific Coast Issue of New American Paintings.
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Through layered textures and muted, earthy palettes, Darren Cortez invokes the warmth of collective memory. His paintings trace the quiet tensions and unexpected harmonies of daily life, deconstructing the hidden narratives contained within the ordinary.More
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