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.
Specs:
In this diptych, Darren Cortez juxtaposes the familiar presence of dining utensils with the unseen and hallucinatory, offering a meditation on how inner and outer realities coexist. The work explores the corporeal functions of daily life intertwined with human expression, emotion, and quiet contemplation embedded in the mundane.More
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