Julio De Rita

Julio was born in the Mexican state of Sonora and from early in his life he showed an inclination for the arts. In Julio’s effort to evolve towards new themes and forms of plastic expression, a good number of works, abstract and figurative, have been produced. Some of these works remained in Europe but most of them are still in Mexico.

Fragoso Maiz

Miguel Fragoso Maiz, a resident of Tepoztlan, is a native of Mexico City. He graduated from La Esmeralda, the prestigious national art school in Mexico where he studied Plastic Arts and specialized in Graphic Design. He trained under master Artist Martha Lopez Figueroa and Edgar Guzman who provided inspiration for his artistic development.

While in Mexico City, Maiz worked as a graphic artist for Playboy Magazine, He was instrumental in developing the artist touch to the magazine. His present work represents the innumerable varieties of popular Mexican icons in his meticulous portrayals of the cultural fabric surrounding Latin America. Maiz is a discriminating observer of the world, transforming his visual recordings into a sensitive constellation of distinctions and lustrous textures expose an amazing stylistic accuracy, which Maiz achieves in a focused realism. Now he masters the art of portrait realism a rich palette and luscious brushwork infuses vitality into each of his paintings, which range from portraits to scenes of contemporary life and brilliantly observed landscapes.

Armando Adrian Lopez

Armando Adrian Lopez was born in 1965 in the town of Santa Maria in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. Steeped in the mysticism and mythologies of his native land, his work bridges Catholic imagery and beliefs, and Native traditions (prior to the European colonization of Mexico) within a contemporary context.

Lopez cites Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros as major, early influences. Lopez’ intent is not to be part a particular genre; though his work is closest to Magical Realism, the figures in his paintings, upon close inspection, include facial elements that are more closely aligned with figurative abstraction, while contradictions of reality or more closely aligned with Surrealism.