Alfredo Arreguin
Subtitle: Patterns of Dreams and Nature/Disenos, Suenos Y Naturaleza (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists)
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780295981789
Subjects: Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Individual Artist; 1935-; Arreguin, Alfredo,; Arreguâin, Alfredo,; Catalogs
Description: "Born in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguin has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting.

His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacan; the lush rain forests of his homeland and of the Pacific Northwest; Japanese ukiyo-e prints; sacred and endangered animals; gods and totemic figures; icons like Frida Kahlo and Cesar Chavez; and motifs including masks, eyes, and abstractly patterned tiles.".

"But Arreguin's paintings, for all the apparent flatness of their surfaces, conceal an astonishing depth of perspective. The basis of their composition is a grid of colorful patterns applied to superimposed planes, and below the surface of each completed painting are many others, transformed by the artist's strategic occlusions and erasures.

The result is an exuberant, phosphorescent visual interplay in which images combine to form other images, yielding an extraordinary narrative power and pointing up the profound, ambiguous symbiosis between human beings and nature, fiction and reality, and the natural and supernatural worlds.".

"Lauro Flores reveals Alfredo Arreguin as "a genuinely American painter, in the real, hemispheric sense of this term" - an artist of magic, mystery, and revelation whose place in the history of North American art has already been secured."--BOOK JACKET.