Compositions in color
Artist Statement:
Since
last year, I have been working towards change, something new, something vigorous
and playful. Ideas would fly in, float around my brain but nothing would
materialize. After Panchito passed away on January 2023, I sat down to work my
blues out through digital drawings and by the middle of February the first
drawing that caught my attention as a possibility came out (fig #1), I began developing
the idea (figures #2 and #3) and by the last week of March, started working on
canvas.
Using
acrylic on canvas, the series continues to explore my interest in shape and color interactions
and their effect on human perception. They are liberating, anything
goes, chance has a contribution but after chance comes choice. The choices relate to my present and my past as well as my hopes for the future, they
are internal, they come from deep in my heart (if you are a Romantic) or deep
in my unconscious (if you are a Freudian).
Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales
Note: The work is divided between paintings (acrylic on canvas) and prints (digital drawings)
Tech note: The photos for the paintings do not do justice to the artwork. At the moment, I'm limited to what I have. The main issues are light reflection: the inherent reflectivity of Acrylic paint and true dark colors: there are no black colors, they are greens, blues, purples, and reds, some of them at the edge.