Aurelio Márquez

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About Aurelio Márquez

Statement

My work is a physical dialogue between the resilience of memory and the immediacy of the present. Born in Cuba and now based in Miami Beach, I create multi-textural acrylic paintings that inhabit the evocative space between the figurative and the abstract.

I am drawn to the scarred quality of the canvas. Through a visceral process of layering, scraping, and rebuilding, I mirror the experience of cultural transition and the tension of living in-between. Each piece invites the viewer to search for familiar forms—a horizon, a silhouette, a face—only to watch them dissolve into atmospheric texture.

Influenced by the intense heat and light of my environment, my palette captures a world that is both vivid and weathered. I do not smooth the rough edges of the medium; instead, I embrace the intentional chaos of the stroke. These textures record a history of movement — a testament to what endures the storm.

Ultimately, my art is an invitation to embrace the beauty of the unfinished and the power of distorted memory, finding truth in the tension of the surface.

Bio

Aurelio Márquez is a contemporary abstract expressionist painter living and working in Miami Beach, Florida. Born in Camagüey, Cuba, he is a lifelong artist who began studying drawing in his early teens.

In the 1980s, he relocated from Cuba to Canada to pursue graphic design, earning a Bachelor of Applied Arts from George Brown College in Toronto in 1990, where he received the Dean's Award. As a designer, he won First Prize and Honourable Mention at the Cuban National Exhibition of Graphic Advertising in Santiago de Cuba, and First Prize at the First Graphic Design Triennial in Havana — all while maintaining his passion for fine art.

Today, he devotes himself fully to painting. His design background informs the purposeful precision and balanced, multi-chromatic compositions in his work. Working primarily in acrylics on loose canvas, he achieves a soft, flowing effect through natural texture and acrylic's tactile versatility. His large-format paintings — often diptychs and triptychs — infuse Romanticism with influences from daily poetry, personal emotions, memories, and Miami's vibrant energy.