Arturo Vásquez, a painter from Oaxaca, began his training in 1992 in painting and sculpture at the Universidad Autónoma «Benito Juárez» de Oaxaca, and continued it at the Taller Rufino Tamayo—lithography with Juan Alcázar in 1996, graphic design with Arnulfo Aquino in 1997—, in drawing with Roberto Parodi at the Universidad del Mar in Puerto Ángel and at Los Angeles City College, both in 1998.
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He has held solo exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Plaza Fátima in San Pedro Garza García (2009), at the Senate of the Republic (2016) and at Galería Evia in Mexico City (2017), and has taken part in group shows in Tokyo, Dubai and several cities in the United States; he took part in the Arte Sana auction of the Patronato del Museo Nacional de Antropología in 2013 and 2014. He paints with oil and earths, with silica and with mixed materials on canvas, and has used painter’s palettes as a support: watermelons, fish and cities in red over gridded grounds that the material raises into relief. The cut watermelon, repeated from canvas to canvas, works as his signature.
120 x 250 cm
Mixed media on canvas
2010
100 x 200 cm
Mixed media on canvas
2010
100 x 200 cm
Mixed media on canvas
2010
120 x 160 cm
Mixed media on canvas
2010
120 x 160 cm
Oil and earth pigments on canvas
2010
85 x 185.5 cm
Silica and oil on canvas
2010
85 x 185 cm
Mixed media on canvas
80 x 195 cm
Oil and earth pigments on canvas
2010
100 x 150 cm
Mixed media on canvas
149 x 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
70 x 180 cm
Oil and earth pigments on canvas
2010
100 x 80 cm
Oil and earth pigments on canvas
80 x 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
2010
61 x 45.5 cm
Intervened palette
2010
61 x 45.5 cm
Intervened palette
2010
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