Every work begins with a purpose: to provoke a reaction that stirs emotion, and above all, to unsettle the viewer.
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I was born in Guadalajara in 1982 into a family of entrepreneurs in the furniture industry. Growing up in Jalisco, I was surrounded by design, craftsmanship, and this rich matriarchal gastronomic culture. From early on, I absorbed the textures, colors, rhythms of creation—the quiet discipline of working with your hands, the warmth of food as connection. Those experiences became the foundation of everything I do now.
I never trained as an artist—didn't grow up painting, never went to art school. Art just found me one day and everything changed. But my background in gastronomy and the design business didn't disappear. It became part of how I create, gave me this deep connection to the senses, to aesthetics, to what moves people. That's what shows up in my work: pure intuition.
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When I first started painting, it was self-discovery, really. A way to figure things out, to ride out the storm. Those early pieces were a refuge. But over time, it shifted—painting stopped being shelter and became necessity. Sustenance. Something I just needed to do to feel alive.
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Sometimes I think about the big stuff—how we feel, how we think, how we exist together. But I don't use words for that. I use my hands.
I work with strange materials: burned motor oil, oxides, synthetic stuff, natural things. With them I make marks and shapes that seem to speak on their own.
Latest work:
“Bared”
Year 2025 110cm x 130cm
Play-Doh and Acrylic on cotton canvas.
“Unless you imagine, you do not truly see. The mind is the true seer, and the eyes are its tools”
Chemicals, colors, unconventional materials and gut feelings. I break rules. I ignore labels. I create things that move people or make them uncomfortable. While others chase beauty, I pursue self-knowledge.
I don’t know if what I do is art. I just mix things.
Manifiesto
I don’t know if what I do is art. I just mix things. Sometimes I use burned motor oil, oxides, or unusual materials, and put them on a canvas. It’s like building a mud castle: it’s not clean, but it’s alive.
When I paint, I’m not trying to make it perfect. It’s more like doodling in a notebook or leaving footprints in the dirt something that happens because it has to happen.
My paintings are like secrets. Some can be understood, others not. Some look strong, others seem to fade away.
I paint because it’s my way of playing, of making sense of what I feel, and of keeping little pieces of the world I don’t want to forget. I simply paint what finds me.
Lemat.
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