Manuel Lopez-Aguilar
Region: Pacific Coast
City / State: los angeles, CA
At the moment, my practice is one that originates from drawings done via observation; I adhere to the three most classical genres—still life, landscape, and portraiture—to then turn those drawings into paintings.
I tend to refer to old memories; my works depend on certain cultural objects or markers, places or spaces, and arbitrary images in my head to inform them. In relying on personal experiences to visually compose something, I aim to build into my paintings a connection to other people–some sort of universal, visual shared experience.