GERARDO LÓPEZ
MEET THE ARTIST
Location: Los Cabos, B.C.S., México
Gerardo was born in León, Gto. México;
He resides now in San José del Cabo, B.C.S., where he shows his art in different spots all around.
Gerardo is a versatile painter who inherits the fingerpainting family tradition technique.
Nowadays his main artwork goes to surrealism and hyperrealism, permeating his original ideas and dreams; Gerardo is able to become the most simple thing into an amazing picture.
Gerardo López has been taken the puzzle pieces as his own signature style painting and with this inducing viewers to elucidate beyond the simple image in front of them.
Gerardo states about surrealism:
" it is a real fight between your thoughts, your dreams and your knowledge about life ……and how they mix and hardly ask to be painted .
Gerardo comes from a painters family which have developed the "Fingerpainting" technique, that refers to paint just with the fingers and fingernail instead of the regular brushes, using oil paints on small ceramic tile pieces, painting beautiful mexican scenes in just minutes.
Special mention to his family teachers: Jorge Lopez, Mario Lopez and Antonio Lopez. They inspire him to do what he does and become in the artist he is now.
