Excodra XXXVI: La tecnología

DORIAN VALLEJO
Bio: Born into an artistic family, Dorian Vallejo's career began in his late teens
when he began illustrating book covers while attending the School of Visual Arts in
New York. As the field increasingly began to incorporate the use of computergenerated
images, Vallejo felt the need to pursue other avenues with his art. His
love of traditional media and the figure, drew him to portraiture and to focus on
personal work, which shows in galleries. These days Vallejo spends most of his time
creating paintings and drawings for sale through galleries.
Artist's Statement: Much of the art I create engages a fascination I have with
several ideas that over lap both philosophically and aesthetically. I'm interested in
the psychology of our inner selves, the conscious explorationand the interplay
between the two realms of existence. Essentially, I see that process and our
challenge to balance the lighter and darker sides of our persona as a beautiful
dance. Primarily, I use a sort of dream world of floating figures, forests, and natural
motifs to suggest the realm of the unconscious and the duality of existence because
it is there, creatively that I can express a philosophical ideal of heroism that (to
loosely paraphrase one of my favorite philosophers) corresponds to my sense of Life
as I believe it could be and ought to be. My work is my "Yes" to life.
http://www.dorianvallejo.com
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