RRicardo

I birth and maintain my work on the principle that the world is a place of design by man that can corrupt or restore beauty. I am equally a participant extending my best and worst to my environment and fellow human beings.

I am a resident artist in San Antonio but born and raised in Los Angeles. I paint people as they interact, weave between, and celebrate themselves and each other.​

My work is versatile as my insatiable vision affords me a prolific artist reality. I create a new collection habitually as ideas constantly enter my mind as justifiable expressions with which I communicate. The paintings are visually abstract disfigurements and representational simultaneously as each construct exposes the reality to which we all contribute and from which we all evolve. Colorful and bold with various shapes and images, these paintings explore the beautiful and obscene. Specific elements of reality align as stagnating torsos of man and woman mutually endure in a corruptible world. ​

In my work, there is a conversation that is geographically and geometrically united by human anatomy and genealogy that travels through time and image. ​

My themes communicate a speech of love and anger relative to the tragedies and triumphs and all that exists in-between as a verifiable definition of humanity. I deconstruct to reconstruct.​

I see my work connecting the cultures of academia and street as I relate the same honest reality and essence of the humanity of everyday people found all over the world. In a sense, my work is simple and diverse yet intellectual and universal where all minds exist.

The more I explore in my work, the more I realize the necessity to define my relationship with society on an intimate, individual basis as an observer and as an insider. It was where I belong in regards to myself, my relationship with my environment, and the world on a fundamental and intimate level that I define my work and my place in the life I live and extend as an artist and human being.