Marcelo Hernandez

Artist Statement:

I work with different mediums such as oil, acrylic, plaster, photography, stickers, drawing and wood to make different art works. Each medium has a unique practice and a different style from each other. Oil painting is a medium where I paint still life, abstract and portrait, but it doesn't stop there. After I finish making a piece I go over it and change its look or appearance for example, in still life I would finish the piece and then I would add small detail around the still life and make it into a floating Island. The still life would remain as the center of attention but it would give the piece another meaning. One that would say “I'm a still life but different kind of bread of it” . Acrylic and stickers both play a huge part together since I work with Acrylic Markers, drawing and postal stickers. I make the characters I created on the stickers then I would go and place them outside. Plaster and wood Is a medium that I enjoy exploring by mixing them together. I would make a coffin shaped casket out of wood and then would use plaster to make a replica of my hand and joint them together. Through photography, I work with black and white, portraits, and nighttime. I sometimes even include drawing on them. Through these mediums, I would show what are the foundations of my art work are and also the different way I approach the Idea of interacting art pieces

Through all my practices, I work to change one's perception of their surroundings by making stickers and installing them either on trains, signs, poles and windows, by doing so the interaction of the work relation to its environment and its viewer is heightened in an effort to distract people from their daily life activities and admire the artwork. How can I be able to make my work interact or even become part of it? Most of my art work is small scale and mostly on priority mail stickers. In this process I use a pencil, 0.3 ink pen, and Posca fine point markers to make characters I created on the stickers or canvas. Creating my own little world where my characters live in a small sticker and then later placed somewhere in public where their space complements the outside world.

Today we can go outside and see murals all around our neighborhoods depicting different images of either advertising or of artists putting their work on walls. My practice revolves around that same idea like graffiti and mural painting. It doesn't have the same size but it still plays a huge role on how I want my artwork to interact with their surroundings and with people. I want my work to get people's attention and make them stop what they're doing and look at it. To see how a small figure or art piece can change how someone looks at the place or objects around them. I want people to find a distraction from reality and enjoy questioning and wondering why this work is there? You might not be able to see this in my other works but they still are influenced by the idea of changing the perspectives of things.