Jonathan Riesco

The first steps out of a tunnel are disorienting. Your eyes adjusting from dark to light, from near focus to max depth of field, and infinite details, everywhere. Don't forget to look up. Can you see everything? ...not even close. It blurs. Steady movement increases the experience. People are everywhere. These paintings are a collection of observations. A visual free verse constructed from daily notes that are absorbed, then translated into this puzzle. Direct inspiration and raw documentation create this visual stream of consciousness. There are no specific references, just hints of architecture and design. It is an unconventional space, a nontraditional cityscape, capturing the spirit of the crowded metropolis, while dancing down the fine line of control and chaos. The style is referenced as a modified cubism. The structures play with perspective. Changing angles, multiple points of view, if combined with its neighbor, this whole new space iscreated. Evoking the labyrinth of New York City.

Jonathan Riesco is a first generation Cuban-American, born and raised in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Louisiana State University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in painting and drawing in 2002. Upon his return to Miami in early 2003, he established Riesco Art Studio. — An independent artist's studio-gallery. He created and exhibited his own wodcthere successfully for fouryears. In late 2006 his work began flirting with themes and beats of a bigger city. The promise of interaction with thousands of people a day while surrounded by massive edifice and strange new spaces inspired Jonathan Riesco to move to Brooklyn, NY in the summer of 2007.

Seeking urban adventure, exploring the spaces we, as humans have created, translating them on the surface with his own language. His paintings express the bursting insanity of city life and portray the imagery in an elaborately layered style. This is where you and I exist.