Acero III

Lucía Valencia studied drawing, design and painting at the Istituto per l ́Arte e il Restauro, Florence, Italy. He has a degree in Graphic Design from the Anahuac University. In 2001 she won the Afredo Guati Rojo Prize and two Mentions in the Watercolor Salon, of the Acuarela Museum, CDMX. He has participated in more than 25 individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico City, Morelia, San Miguel de Allende and Austin Texas, in galleries such as: Terreno Baldío, Baga06, Moyshen and the museums Museum of Modern Art of Mexico City, MUNAL National Museum of Art, Museum of San Carlos, Watercolor Museum. 

"As a self-taught artist, my dedication and effort are focused on making monochromatic images that speak to me and others in what I truly believe is a kind of provocative serenity. My influences are primarily everything I see, feel, and experience; part of my process, as I understand it, lies in my admiration and love for the inherent beauty of simplicity and boldness conjugated in works of art made through simple materials such as charcoal, graphite and acrylic. I try, with each work, that each one relates their own memories, evoking their own lives, always leaving the final sensation of their own interpretation. The challenge, as with any work, is not only to make it speak for me, but to make visible the powerful relationship between perception and expression, which form a sense of what in essence, is oneself."

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