Biography from Larsen Gallery:
| Hilario Gutierrez is an Arizona native with a rich ethnic heritage. He has always identified with the spirit of the American Southwest, which has given him an innate awareness of the quiet struggle and fragile balance of the Sonoran Desert. While visiting Monument Valley, Hilario became inspired by the desert landscape and monumental natural wonders and realized his calling was to paint.
Mr. Gutierrez studied the works of other artists such as Gerhard Richter and Dan Namingha in order to develop his technique of layering and subtracting conjoined colors to create a diversity of subjective and non-subjective images within his distinctive surfaces. The works he creates are executed by layering and removing pigments and glazes with tools such as palette knives and squeegees, which both gives the surface its’ texture and allows the viewer to “look inside” the painting.
Artist Statement:
"As an Arizona native, I possess an innate awareness of the quiet
struggle and fragile balance of the Sonoran Desert. My abstract style
expresses the harmony in the desert’s chaotic emotion of line, color
and form. Emotion is the soul of my work; inspired by the natural and
man-made architecture of the landscape of Arizona."
"I
believe the eye can touch an image and reveal sensation. I create
conjoined colors; so, like a prism, there is no separation of one color
to the next. Thus, my work evokes a different emotion depending on
one’s nearness to the canvas."
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