JANUS

Visual artist. He has a degree in Graphic Design at the University of the Gulf of California in Baja California Sur. His worldview comes from figurative and abstract art along with his experiences as a resident in the cities of Mexico, Puebla, Tijuana, Los Cabos, and, for a long period of his childhood and adolescence in Tennessee, United States.

He studied Painting and Engraving Techniques at the Academia de San Carlos; Curatorship with Ana Elena González; Curatorship and Composition at the BCS International Festival of Visual Arts; and Photography at the Universidad Noroeste Tijuana, Baja California.

Since 2010 he has given private classes in different states and in 2015 he was part of the team of teachers of the Young Leaders in Action Program in San José del Cabo, BCS. He currently resides in Mexico City.

His work was selected to be exhibited at various national and international events, at the age of twelve (2002) he obtained his first painting prize in the United States at a Tennessee state competition in Nashville. In 2014, he obtained the Silver Medal for the Arts as the best painter at the Los Cabos International Festival of Visual Arts, BCS. In the middle of the same year he was selected to participate in the International Art Exchange France in Paris, and in the 5 ème Chemin des arts & de la Culture Internationale Toutry de France. During 2015 he won an honorable mention with the work "Castilla" during the Seventh Carlos Olachea Sudcalifornian Visual Arts Biennial, in La Paz, BCS. He was also selected to participate in the XlX López Sáenz Biennial in Mazatlán. He won an honorable mention with the work "Ocho" at the 2019 Art Olympia International Open Art Competition in Japan.

Janus defined his vocation as an artist as a child from an innate inclination for the arts in a family environment that fostered culture; as well as thanks to a revealing visit to a painting workshop, at the age of six. He has explored self-knowledge beyond an artistic trend, through the use of different painting techniques, moving from color to movement until entering the composition. He considers his work to be abstract figurative, based on a projection of symbols from the subconscious motivated by his immediate reality and memories, with strokes of basic figures, colors, and vibrations that invite an inner reality. He lives building his differential value as an artist, and he recognizes in his style the influence of teachers such as Manuel Felguérez, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, Bernard Buffet, Egon Schiele.