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Jorge Arcos

Consciousness

Jorge Arcos: (Mexico), was born in 1969 in Mexico City. As a young boy he received direct artistic influence from his father who was a landscape painter. He decided to pursue a career in “Drawing and Illustration and Fine Arts” at Escuela Superior de Arte y Dibujo Publicitario, in Mexico City. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he focuses on Abstract Art, figurative forms, and murals. He has had several art exhibitions in countries, such as Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the United States, with private and corporative collections around the world.

Felipe Ehrenberg

Cover image from El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn,

Felipe Ehrenberg: was a Mexican artist who worked in painting, drawing, printmaking, and performance, among other mediums. He also published books and magazines. His artistic career of more than 50 years covered the conceptual art of the seventies, including mail art and mimeography, a neographical technique of which he was a pioneer. He defined himself as a neologist since the seventies; the term itself is a neologism which underlines the experimental characteristics of his work. He considered himself an artist, chronicler, professor, politician, diplomatic, editor, actor, organizer, and tireless traveler.

Melvin Toledo

Claudia and Elvi

Melvin Toledo: (Nicaragua) was born in a small town in Northern Nicaragua. His interest in art began in High School while drawing characters from the popular manga series Dragon Ball Z. Encouraged by family members, he left his small hometown of Ciudad Antigua in northern Nicaragua to attend the School of Fine Arts in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The following year, he began work as a painter using a mixture of oil and lithographic ink for Decoraciones Hondure as, a family business, which sold his paintings across the country. In 2007, he moved to the United States where he began to paint exclusively in oils. He currently lives with his wife and children in Tucker, Georgia. His work can be seen by appointment and at Gallery 202 in Franklin, Tennessee.

Carlos Solis

March of Heroes

Carlos Solis: (Venezuela) is the founder of the Latin American artist collective “Contrapunto.” He has curated several shows including “Blackness in Latin America” which premiered in New York, moved to Chicago, New Mexico, and ended in Atlanta, and “Surrealist Apparatus” which travelled along the east coast of the United States. Born in 1966, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, he lived in Venezuela until 1990 when he relocated to Chicago, IL where he studied Graphic Design at College of DuPage. In 2006, he moved to Atlanta where a few years later he dedicated his life to his fine art career.