Aurelio-Márquez @ Hortus Conclusus exhibition opening night
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About Aurelio Márquez
Statement
Like an ongoing evolutionary process, I find myself crossing over from graphic design
into the fine art of painting. My considerable experience as a graphic artist taught me
how to create and balance compositions with high purpose and precision.
Now I paint, fascinated and energized by the challenges, possibilities and potential to advance into the realms of pigment, colour and the expanse of the blank canvas landscape. Much of my art is inspired by deeply rooted ideas, emotions, memories and experiences of my past. These become the DNA of my paintings, every artwork offering a new opportunity
to crystallize yet another dream.
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.