Size: 8 1/4" x 5 1/4"
Year: 1997 (Revised in 2003)
Media: pencil, color pencil, and watercolor (on paper glued onto wood)
Price: $149.99
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Luis Coig Reyes
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- Luis Coig Reyes
- I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my wife Kerrie and my son Oliver. I was born in Madrid, Spain, where I spent my childhood, except for 2 years in Baghdad when I was 3 and 4 years old. I lived my teenage years in Quito, Ecuador. Then I moved to the United States at the age of 18. I studied my senior year of high school in Maryland, and I earned my B.F.A. at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. I actually started college with the idea of becoming a Biologist, but then it became apparent that I would never pass Organic Chemistry, among other required courses for the major. It's clear to me now that my passion for Art is stronger than my severe interest in Biology, but back then I had to hit my own wall, I suppose. I moved to New York City in 1994 to pursue my Masters at the School of Visual Arts and I graduated in 1996. I had a little studio in Manhattan for 10 years, but now I work in my home studio, or on the dinner table, or the computer desk. My home studio is a very little room with a glass sliding door to the garden. The light is good.
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12 comments:
I like these imaginary portraits of social types.
Well, not exactly, they're portraits of real people, but I didn't know them, so I imagined who they might be.
Well even if they are based on real people my comment still stands. You are giving them titles like Botanist, Math Teacher, Russian-Arab relations, Paciencia or patience. These titles lend the paintings an allegorical air, tilt them towards the symbolic without going all the way. This is the case because you are drawing real people, capturing the details of real faces while placing the faces in an other-worldly context.
Also, they are imaginary because the spaces you are putting the figures in are very abstract, not rooted to a realistically rendered environment or setting.
I like the fact that you are drawing real people and then placing them in this context. I find these paintings more captivating than the paintings that have more cartoonish lumpy figures in them.
Ah, but you like the Shrimp showman.
I agree with your analysis, although I don't have a preference for either body of work. And I actually call them drawings, but I guess the watercolor parts are painting.
Yes I do like the Shrimp one but I think the drawings with the more realistically rendered portraits in them are more compelling.
I've pretty much stopped drawing or painting persons outta my head. I've even moved away from figurative work altogether. I mean, there are still figures in my recent work, but they are highly abstracted. I think I explored all I needed to explore in the cartoon-influenced style with my 102 tiny paintings. And although I still like drawing people in the train, these days it doesn't happen very often. I'm only very rarely on the train.
You don't have to commute by train to a job? You are lucky. If you can manage to get a seat in the mornings you will often find sleeping passengers across the aisle who make perfect subjects. I usually just read on the train. Yes drawing people from life is a big enough challenge for me. The problem is they like to move, which makes it difficult to focus and get the proportions and positions right.
That's why I draw them when they're sleeping or reading, they don't move much.
I don't have to commute to a job because I don't have one. I had to quit the one I had to stay home and take care of my toddler. Sometimes I get a little translation work to do at home, but not much in this economy. I only hope I'll be able to find a job when he's a little older. There aren't very many out there.
Yeah my wife and I art teachers and we plan on trying to get work so that we can move back downstate next summer. The problem is, the city system put a hiring freeze on new teachers. My wife is a math teacher so it should be easier for her. I just hope we can pull it off, but I got no temp work this past summer, which was the main reason why I stayed in Brooklyn, and things look pretty damn grim.
are not art
Oooh, but "art" had a nice archaic ring to it.
Art thou mocking me?
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