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Andre Amaral

July 14, 2010 10:01 pm

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Artist bio:

I was born in Santos, Brazil in 1980 and relocated to Houston with my family in 1998.

Received a BA in Applied Design and Visual Arts in 2004 and a MA in Humanities (Images) in 2009 from the University of Houston Clear Lake.

In my current work, I use inks collected from empty CMYK cartridges from a Roland XC540 (large format printer). After the initial pencil sketch on canvas, each ink is painted in by itself in four separate layers: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The inks are not mixed in the painting process; the first layers can be seen through the top layers of ink allowing for visual blending of the colors.

The process of painting in layers of color is a reference to channels of color as well as the way graphic designers work in layers on design software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. The white areas are left untouched in order to parallel the ink jet printing process: printing colors on white media and leaving white areas of the design untouched by the inks.

The main idea behind this painting process is to create a symbolic bridge between the commercial and the artistic by bringing these solvent inks back from commercial purposes to artistic output. Another theme of this work is the use of recycled materials in Fine Art. Some of my influences come from Andy Warhol’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s work, as well as many others from the Pop Art movement.