Sergio Suárez

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Sergio Suárez is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based visual artist and printmaker.  His woodcuts construct scenes that exist at the periphery of visibility — a space in which cosmic interconnectivity fuses with quotidian experiences of the ineffable. Suárez describes his woodblock printing practice as “composing in time”, and it is as if each work contains an internal mythology, to which the viewer is privy to a single moment in an unknown, prolonged chronology. Every scene feels temporally in flux, existing as stamps from an ambiguous epoch, amplified by the weaving of mixed iconographies like Mesoamerican cosmologies, catholic theological painting, contemporary telescopic observations, and western metaphysical philosophy, and Western metaphysical philosophy. These works contain an intricate balance of pressure and lightness, thematically with the omission of sunlight, and physically with the necessary force to make the marks in the wood for printing. Like a blurred mass passing beneath a streetlamp, these works exist in partial occlusion, resulting in certainty being supplanted by imagination.  

Suárez graduated in 2021 from the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking. His work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally at venues such as Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY), Pale Fire Projects (Vancouver, Canada), KDR Gallery (Miami, FL), Fundación Casa Wabi Sabino (Mexico City, Mexico), Johnson Lowe Gallery (Atlanta, GA), Hawkins HQ (Atlanta, GA), Whitespace Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Consulate General of Mexico (Atlanta, GA), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London, UK), Haugesund International Relief Festival (Haugesund, Norway), OPED Space (Tokyo, Japan), and the Ionian Arts Center (Kefalonia, Greece), where he was an artist-in-residence in 2017 and 2018. Additionally, his work is part of the public collections at the Zuckerman Museum (Kennesaw, GA) and MOCA GA (Atlanta, GA).   

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