Eddie Villanueva
For nearly a decade, I have been producing abstract compositions
that excavate surfaces, occupy spaces, and reverberate
throughout environments. I maintain a democratic approach to
creative exploration, giving myself the agency to mix and remix
materials, themes, and content into graphically structured
groupings with dissonant surfaces. My aesthetic investigation is
driven by a critical engagement with mixed materiality, illusion,
and spectacle. I cannibalize my temporal constructions—
collecting, refurbishing, and reusing old fragmented elements in
new works. These fragments retain the patina of each iteration,
becoming signifiers for the continual writing and rewriting of
surface histories. Intuitively responsive to formal variables
and attracted to emphatic composition and design, I look for
visual experiences that oscillate between incongruousness and
harmony.
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