Cande Aguilar is a great modern artist. His paintings are both simple, complex and truly challenge the viewers thoughts. His expressive scribbling and neon presence slashed apart on over commercialized images, pasted and overlapping discarded materials displayed in a large size choice, to me clearly suggests that he is not afraid of the freedom of his artistic neo-expressionism. I can't say I truly understand the messages in his paintings if and when there is any as it may only be deciphered by the artist but I can say I am comfortable with them the way I am comfortable with a magazine on a coffee table , the cartoons on TV or a business signs piercing the sky next to the express way. His paintings also reflect the freedom of thought in a sense or idea of a painting not entrapping the viewer on a single image but to let the viewer wonder about.
Oscar Alvarez is in my opinion a great surrealist painter. His paintings are almost all consistent of a dream world that seems to question the viewer of its existence. Some of the images reflect a life of some animal human sort consuming or wanting to consume other life. The earthly tones and dreamlike haze to multiple overlapping imagery is cleverly compose and well balanced. Oscar is not a large scale painter and in a sense doesn't need to be, his style and technique will make the viewer feel a part of the world he has created....
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This exhibition is definitely worth viewing. I agree with Gabriel's review:
Oscar Alvarez' surrealism is dreamlike and whimsical, but not in a happy, dancing-on-a-cloud sort of way. His almost-sinister depictions suggest whimsy, but lead you to darker place.
Alvarez deals with death on a daily basis as funeral director for Darling Mouser, and it seems his musings on life and death do not escape his artwork. If you've ever had a chance to converse with Alvarez as I have, you'd find a certain calm about him. He is not exactly brooding, though. He shares great enthusiasm when speaking of his children, and eminates a certain youthful energy. He has said his paintings help him face death and dying and are his therapy.
Alvarez and Cande Aguilar were good friends in high school in Brownsville and often painted together. For this exhibit, a collaborative piece is featured. See if you can spot it when you go.
Cande Aguilar's expressionistic work is a different kind of whimsical. Cartoonish images are juxtaposed against a brushstroke here and layers of peeling textures there. The enormity of his work is at times overwhelming, but the artist seems to be coming into his own with this latest collection. The larger works almost defy you to analyze, interpret and question the focus. I'm personally fond of his smaller works.
Check out this exhibit and feel free to add your comments!
--Sarah Williams
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