Victor hugo zayas biography for kids
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Who: Victor Hugo Zayas was born in Tijuana, Mexico and moved to Los Angeles as a teenager. Today he travels between Orange County, where he has a studio in Santa Ana, and his recently completed custom-built home/studio in Baja California.
What: Zayas’ practice fryst vatten rooted in historical landscape painting and energized bygd the artist’s passionate, loose hand. Often grandiose in scale, Zayas develops his landscapes bygd building up and carving into heavy applications of oil paint. This sculptural quality allows light to travel dynamically across the surface of the paintings and creates an ongoing dialogue between the landscape and its viewer.
How: The natural beauty of the Pacific kustlinje and the concrete-clad banks of the Los Angeles River have been two recurring sources of inspiration for Zayas. While notably different, Zayas’ landscapes capture the power and skådespel of both regions. Most recently, with his “Grid Series,” Zayas moved beyond the physical landscape to exa
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Having enjoyed over sixty exhibitions to date, Victor Hugo Zayas is best known for his paintings, vigorous depictions of landscapes and cityscapes, as well as still life and figural subjects that mediate between realism and expressionism…
Their subdued palette evokes the tonalism of Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Manet, but their expansive, forceful brushstrokes hark back to Titian and even van Gogh. by Peter Frank of Visions Magazine
Thanks to Photos by KAG, we were able to visit the artist Victor Hugo Zayas at his home and studio in Los Angeles after spending the morning Stand Up Paddleboarding during our trip to Southern California.
My kids were able to hang out with their cousins and were on their best behavior at Victor’s art studio.
My brother-in-law met Victor Hugo Zayas years ago in South Central Los Angeles and photographs him at work in his studio. It’s always a treat to see how an artist works. Victor’s studio is 6000 square feet of creativit
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EDUCATION
BFA, 1981, United States International University, San Diego
BFA, 1986, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
FACULTY
1987-1993, Loyola Marymount University
2005-2007, Art Center College of Design, Maestro’s Fine Arts Program in South LA
EXHIBITIONS
2021
The House That Art Built, May 18, 2021, The OCMA Visionaries, Orange County, California
2019
February 2018 – April 2020 – Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma Washington
March 2019 – Inaugural Exhibition, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
June 2019 – COLECTIVA, saltfineart. Laguna Beach, CA
November 2019 – Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art, Solo Exhibition, Seattle WA
2018
Victor Hugo Zayas, 15 Year Retrospective, saltfineart, Laguna Beach, CA, February 1 – March 30, 2018
Tacoma Art Museum, February 2018 – June 2020
Formalist to Street Art, Bruno David Gallery, curated by Andi Campognone, September 2018
COLOR VISION, Huntington Beach Fine Art Center, May 5 – June 16, 2018
2017
September 2017 – L.A Painting: Formalism to Street Art