Hacia al arco, por debajo del diluvio (2020) por Marcos Hernandez Chavez

Towards the arc, but under the deluge (2020) by Marcos Hernandez Chavez

Marcos Hernandez Chavez

Marcos Hernandez Chavez looks at the camera wearing a button-up shirt. The image is in greyscale and from the shoulders up.

Marcos Hernandez Chavez is a Mexico born and Houston raised artist based in the north/east side of Houston. His work has been presented at the Galveston Arts Center, the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston as well as spaces in Colorado, California, and New York. Over the last seven years in which he has returned to Houston from Denton, TX, Hernandez Chavez has been involved in a practice with artwork that came as a result of constant experimentation, a reliance on construction materials, and an expressionist compositional origin. With themes of labor, craft authorship, environmental and indigenous issues, he has continued to expand upon this practice, finding new materials to create work and reaching back to the original art forms that formed his studies. Hernandez Chavez has been published in the Houston Chronicle, Glasstire and New American Paintings, among other publications. His most recent exhibition was El Baile de los que Sobran at Hooks Epstein Gallery, and he is in an upcoming group show at the Orange Center of Visionary Art, both in Houston, Texas.

Marcos Hernandez Chavez es un artista nacido en México y criado en Houston con sede en el lado norte/este de Houston. Su trabajo se ha presentado en el Galveston Arts Center, el Fort Worth Community Arts Center, el Station Museum of Contemporary Art en Houston, así como en espacios en Colorado, California y Nueva York. Durante los últimos siete años en los que regreso a Houston desde Denton, TX, Hernandez Chavez ha estado involucrado en una práctica con obras de arte que surgieron como resultado de la experimentación constante, la confianza en los materiales de construcción y un origen compositivo expresionista. Con temas de trabajo, autoría artesanal, cuestiones ambientales e indígenas, el he seguido ampliando esta práctica, encontrando nuevos materiales para crear obras y volviendo a las formas de arte originales que formaron sus estudios. Hernandez Chavez ha sido publicado en Houston Chronicle, Glasstire y New American Paintings, entre otras publicaciones. Su exhibición más reciente fue El Baile de los que Sobran en Hooks Epstein Gallery, y esta en una próxima exhibición grupal en el Orange Center of Visionary Art, ambos en Houston, Texas.