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HILARIO GUTIERREZ Born 1950 On New Year’s Day 1994, Hilario faced the monolithic stone temples of Monument Valley, Arizona and recognized, for the first time, his true nature. He returned home two days later and began to paint. As an Arizona native with a rich ethnic heritage consisting of Aztec and Yaqui Indian from his maternal side and Austrian from his paternal side, Hilario always identified with the spirit of the American Southwest. This unique identity became evident with his first paintings. He was drawn to acrylics as his medium and he experimented with color and form. He studied the work of master artists, in particular Gerhard Richter and Dan Namingha, to develop and perfect his technique. Within a year he was selling his work. In August 2006 his work was reviewed in the Chicago Sun-Times. Hilario has had four solo shows since 1998; three were sell-outs. His solo show in October 2001 was featured in the Arts section of the Sunday edition of The Arizona Republic. In October 2000 two of his works were selected for the 4th Annual Juried Exhibition by Phoenix’s prestigious ArtLink, Inc. His work has been acquired for corporate collections at UBS AG, AllianceBernstein LP, McDonalds Corporation, and DMB, Inc. His work is also in a multitude of private collections worldwide. ARTIST’S STATEMENT As an Arizona native, I possess an innate awareness of the quiet struggle and fragile balance of the Sonoran Desert. My abstract style expresses the harmony in the desert’s chaotic emotion of line, color and form. Emotion is the soul of my work inspired by the natural and man-made architecture of the landscape of Arizona. I use a diversity of subjective and non-subjective images combined with distinctive surfaces and shapes to explore the internal life of my art. My explorations draw you in and allow you to wonder, remember, and awaken. I believe the eye can touch an image and reveal sensation. I create conjoined colors; so, like a prism, there is no separation of one color to the next. Thus, my work evokes a different emotion depending on one’s nearness to the canvas. |
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