Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome visual artist Alejandro Gutierrez Garcia from Mexico, currently based in Houston, Texas, with a beautiful and introspective painting entitled Spirit. A man’s face, meticulously rendered in oil and pencil, gazes out at us, surrounded by a cloudy grey field which is slashed and invaded by bright red. The face is hyperrealistic, the surrounding area completely abstract. This contrast helps Alejandro speak to our imaginations with an economy of color and structure. There are many interpretations for Spirit. It is the viewer’s experience and beliefs that resonate in the sparse ambiguity Alejandro has created, coalescing into meaning. Perhaps you see a man looking through a cloudy window streaked with blood, perhaps you take Alejandro’s title to heart and see a man’s spirit floating in a cloudy grey world that is bloody and violent. Maybe you see a spirit that remains intact despite the struggles and bloodshed around him. This face isn’t the face of a movie-star or model, this is a man you might see on the street, his expression intense and full of worry wrinkles, indicating that he is involved in some sort of struggle, some vulnerability.
See Spirit in Synkroniciti’s “Vulnerable” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/. You do not want to miss this emerging artist and his bold and insightful vision.
My name is Alejandro Gutierrez Garcia. My introduction into the art world began when i took a drawing class at the Fine Arts Institute of San Luis Potosí.
Introduced to, and influenced by, the work of Diego Velázquez and his dramatic use of light, i realized then and there that my ability to express myself through drawing and painting was something that i would pursue for the rest of my life.
In an attempt to remedy my own sense of disconnection to the world around me, i use simple lines and color in my paintings to express a feeling, a mood or even an entire story.
My paintings require the viewer to not only see but to feel the subjects in them.