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Colorful Surrealist Dreamscape

1991

French painting in bright blue green tones of fish by artist Jean-Charles Lauthe, 1971. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...

Dazzling use of color in this abstract acrylic tribute to the late Dizzy Gillespie by JP Bouladoux, 1986. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a whi...

The black goldfish drifts through a crimson dream, its fleeting memory aglow with quiet light. A lantern guides its steps toward the sun, never weighed by shadows left behind. Throug...

Raya, like every productive artist, is a collection of actions, utopias and talents. He is an acrylic painter and a muralist; an installation artist and a practitioner of the theory of the fragment as a synthesis of the whole; he is Chicano but his work has no passport; he is an obsessive self-portraitist (I, as the multiplicity locked within the I) and his an advocate of his community (in the fullest sense of the world); his is from Chicago and - being a nation onto himself - is a native of his art education; his yearns for the Tijuana of tomorrow while being a full-fledged inhabitant of the Tijuana of half a century back; he admires high-tech while being a fan of Frida Kahlo. --Carlos Monsivais Marcos Raya Dog Years oil on canvas 17h x 17w in 43.18h x 43.18w cm MSR054 Marcos Raya brings together old and new works in a variety of media that mostly explores the sociological impact of technological change. His paintings, collages and installations present an idiosyncratic hybrid of Mexican folklore...