Denver-based artist Lui Ferreyra has developed a remarkable technique for his illustrations and sketches. Taking inspiration from traditional and classic oil on canvas paintings, Ferreyra draws people, parts of the human body, and other figures by putting together small geometric fragments in a variety of vibrant colors. The result is an aesthetic that transmutes past techniques into the context of contemporary digital art.
There’s a double move at play here. The first move is substantiated by geometric matrix which functions as surface: it embraces and emphasizes the aspect of flatness within a complex network of geometric shapes, each unique unto itself. The second move is fulfille by the cumulative effect of all the shapes functioning together as a color-field in which each shape contextualizes every other shape, thereby providing all the necessary visual cueing to manifest a kind of window one can look through. Surface and window, at and through, like language which points both at the world and back at itself.
Lui Ferreyra
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