Biography

I was born and raised in Chihuahua, México, where I quickly realized life’s rigid boundaries didn’t align with my natural instincts. At nine years old, I painted my first picture—a simple room with four walls in my mother’s house—marking the beginning of my journey toward creative freedom.

In 1996, I earned a BA from San Diego’s New School of Architecture. Architecture taught me to see and shape space with organic, free-form creativity. Yet, painting soon became my true outlet, allowing me to break free from formal constraints and expand my vision beyond walls.

In 2006, I met Rodrigo Pimentel, a Mexican post-war and contemporary painter who became my mentor. Our ritualistic conversations and shared vision unlocked my imagination. Pimentel taught me that a line isn’t just a line—it can be a matrix of organic shapes, opening the door to abstraction, automatism, and subconscious expression.

I draw inspiration from artists like Roberto Matta, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, and Albert Oehlen. Matta’s biomorphic forms, Varo’s mystical landscapes, Tanning’s dreamlike figurations, and Oehlen’s abstract rigor have shaped my creative approach.

Discovering the Surrealists’ technique of fumage was a turning point. Smoke’s unpredictable dance on the canvas mirrors the freedom I seek in my work. Fumage forms the skeletal structure of my paintings, while the ritual of burning sheds outdated habits and linear thinking, fostering flexible, reflective expression.

Building on fumage, I layer movement and color to create multidimensional landscapes. Each layer introduces new perspectives, forming abstract terrains that become portals—spaces where past, present, and future converge in dynamic unity.

My work strives to reveal the metaphysical through surrealist methods, blending color, movement, and space as fluid and boundless as fire and smoke themselves. It is an ongoing exploration—a vibrant invitation to enter worlds beyond the visible.