JOSEDGARDO GRANADOS

Untitled 1 A4 - by Josedgardo Granados
Spirit of Opportunity - by Josedgardo Granados	Something About this Place - by Josedgardo Granados	Granados Silver Rocket - by Josedgardo Granados	Are we there yet? - by Josedgardo Granados
Car Bomb - by Josedgardo Granados	Commute - by Josedgardo Granados	Fight - by Josedgardo Granados	07 - by Josedgardo Granados

Artist Statement

Several years ago I was creating paintings and installations and slowly started to make process the main aspect of my work. This came from the idea of slowing things down as a reaction to society’s obsession with speed. I was reading the works of Paul Virilio back then and they had a great influence on me. As years passed and my art evolved I started working with pencil on paper and have gained great respect for the simplicity of working with basic materials, especially since I feel that the labor intensive aspect of my art gives respect to those materials. Each piece depending on size takes several weeks or months to complete due to the intense detail within each work. This new set of drawings represent a shift in my practice, I have started drawing monochromatic pieces with the expansive night sky, which is made up of compressed cityscapes full of buildings and skyscrapers. I juxtapose these with the landscape to represent the struggle between nature, development and the human footprint upon the terrain. The scenarios within the work come about abstractly very similar to writing things down while letting ones own thoughts flow, this keeps my mind in a state similar to meditation while the drawing evolves. I hope the viewer is able to always find something new and intriguing within the work no matter how familiar they become with it.

Biography

Education: 2002 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
BFA Painting, Honors

2001 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia

Born: 11 March 1980 San Salvador, El Salvador

Shows & Exhibitions

July – Aug 2009 Solo Show, “Multiverse”, NIMAN Fine Art in Santa Fe

July – August 2008 – “Art of the Americas” Shiprock Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Summer 2007 – “The Passage” Shiprock Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

November 2006 – “True Fiction” - Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, NYC

February 2005 – “Urban Myths” group show, Artek Contemporaries, NYC

2004 – 2006 – “The Flatfile” at Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY