Curtis Gutierrez - "Out of the Blue, 2018"
Artwork Title, Year: Out of the Blue, 2018
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas
Dimensions as Exhibited: 93 x 65 inches
Price: $9200
Artist Bio: Curtis Gutierrez is a Southern California painter and muralist, known for his highly expressive abstracted figurative and narrative subjects, his instinctual approach, and his aggressive brushwork. He came of age as an artist in DTLA during the Chicano Mural movement, and credits his father, a sign painter, for introducing him to the world of paint, and bestowing him with the confidence to make painting his life’s passion. His recent move to Twentynine Palms, CA in the high desert has further expanded his subject matter and his approach to his work.
His paintings are grounded in the figure and the gesture of painting, but the artist often wholly reinvents his work, at a pace that has only increased over the years. Gutierrez has developed a distinctive, visual language throughout all these evolutions, retaining the intensity of a young artist but with the perspective only experience, life, death, and fatherhood, can bring.
Artist Statement: I believe in the power of art and its potential to create community. Art can provide us with a mindful regard, a diversity of cultures, a voice, a spiritual outlet, and a guidance to the future.
My paintings deal with the overarching themes of migrations, generations, legacies, and our interconnectedness to one another. I use a bold, gestural type of brush work and feel a brash sense of urgency as I paint. Drawing is a big part of my practice and has always provided the needed exploration of themes and narratives that I can then translate into my paintings.
This particular painting, "Out of the Blue", depicts a very specific kind of interconnectedness and merging together of two worlds. It shows the point of intersection between the ethereal and the earthly, and between empathy and suffering.
Artwork Title, Year: Out of the Blue, 2018
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas
Dimensions as Exhibited: 93 x 65 inches
Price: $9200
Artist Bio: Curtis Gutierrez is a Southern California painter and muralist, known for his highly expressive abstracted figurative and narrative subjects, his instinctual approach, and his aggressive brushwork. He came of age as an artist in DTLA during the Chicano Mural movement, and credits his father, a sign painter, for introducing him to the world of paint, and bestowing him with the confidence to make painting his life’s passion. His recent move to Twentynine Palms, CA in the high desert has further expanded his subject matter and his approach to his work.
His paintings are grounded in the figure and the gesture of painting, but the artist often wholly reinvents his work, at a pace that has only increased over the years. Gutierrez has developed a distinctive, visual language throughout all these evolutions, retaining the intensity of a young artist but with the perspective only experience, life, death, and fatherhood, can bring.
Artist Statement: I believe in the power of art and its potential to create community. Art can provide us with a mindful regard, a diversity of cultures, a voice, a spiritual outlet, and a guidance to the future.
My paintings deal with the overarching themes of migrations, generations, legacies, and our interconnectedness to one another. I use a bold, gestural type of brush work and feel a brash sense of urgency as I paint. Drawing is a big part of my practice and has always provided the needed exploration of themes and narratives that I can then translate into my paintings.
This particular painting, "Out of the Blue", depicts a very specific kind of interconnectedness and merging together of two worlds. It shows the point of intersection between the ethereal and the earthly, and between empathy and suffering.
Artwork Title, Year: Out of the Blue, 2018
Medium: acrylic paint on canvas
Dimensions as Exhibited: 93 x 65 inches
Price: $9200
Artist Bio: Curtis Gutierrez is a Southern California painter and muralist, known for his highly expressive abstracted figurative and narrative subjects, his instinctual approach, and his aggressive brushwork. He came of age as an artist in DTLA during the Chicano Mural movement, and credits his father, a sign painter, for introducing him to the world of paint, and bestowing him with the confidence to make painting his life’s passion. His recent move to Twentynine Palms, CA in the high desert has further expanded his subject matter and his approach to his work.
His paintings are grounded in the figure and the gesture of painting, but the artist often wholly reinvents his work, at a pace that has only increased over the years. Gutierrez has developed a distinctive, visual language throughout all these evolutions, retaining the intensity of a young artist but with the perspective only experience, life, death, and fatherhood, can bring.
Artist Statement: I believe in the power of art and its potential to create community. Art can provide us with a mindful regard, a diversity of cultures, a voice, a spiritual outlet, and a guidance to the future.
My paintings deal with the overarching themes of migrations, generations, legacies, and our interconnectedness to one another. I use a bold, gestural type of brush work and feel a brash sense of urgency as I paint. Drawing is a big part of my practice and has always provided the needed exploration of themes and narratives that I can then translate into my paintings.
This particular painting, "Out of the Blue", depicts a very specific kind of interconnectedness and merging together of two worlds. It shows the point of intersection between the ethereal and the earthly, and between empathy and suffering.