Originally from Colombia, Andres grew up with strong family values and in a Catholic up bringing. Many of these values come through in his work, sometimes not the way you would think though. Despite his Catholic background he has found himself turning to a more spiritual path, one where organized religion doesn't fit in, and he incorporates it to his work in many cases. He is exploring, and explaining his "religion" with his work, exploring life and death. Andres started his art career with figure drawing, which he still explores to this day, but while in school his artistic interests branched off, he has political pieces, (one in represented in the block in monkey form as a certain former president...) he has many perspective pieces, still lifes, and so on, he has truly explored his craft! I think his passion lies with matters of the heart. His work can currently be seen at Scrawl at Artspace, as well as Bru cafe on Orange St New Haven. I really enjoyed getting to know Andres and after meeting and talking I feel as though we will stay friends, when I went to his studio/apartment I loved that he had all of his work surrounding him, as well as many pieces from other artists! He says it helps to keep him inspired and its gotta be working because in the 3 weeks i have known him now he has showed me at least 5 new things he started working on! It is so fun meeting people who love their craft!
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