| GEAN MORENO |
Born in 1972, Miami-based Gean Moreno earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Florida International University. He has exhibited his work at the Bass Museum, Miami Beach, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. In addition to being a visual artist, Moreno is a highly respected contemporary art critic who has published extensively in Art Paper, Flash Art, and The New Art Examiner. He is also active as a curator of exhibitions, such as Conditions of Display, which featured emerging talents at the Moore Space and Locust Projects in Miami in 2007. Moreno is the recipient of the 2007 Cintas Foundation Emilio Sánchez Award in Visual Arts.
Moreno’s imaginative, brightly colored art includes mixed media drawings, collages, and sculptures, which often incorporate discarded materials, such as swatches of fabric, beer labels, plastic beads, skateboard stickers and other ephemera of daily life. Carefully crafted and densely patterned, his work also references both high and low art, including Aboriginal dot/pattern painting, psychedelic designs, Op Art, Celtic manuscripts, and graffiti. Through his complex, multivalent imagery, Moreno seeks to visualize how the mind processes the constant barrage of disparate data generated by the internet and other outlets for pop culture today. He has described his work as “heterotopic landscapes where different signs, systems and informational lines collide.”
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