Description
‘Last Seen 12 Years Ago’ by Jonathan Espinoza-Perez
Artist: Jonathan Espinoza-Perez
Title: ‘Last Seen 12 Years Ago’
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 12″ x 12″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
Artwork Will Ship From: USA
About the Artwork:
The most uncomfortable, challenging moments of life exist in transitions. Especially the permanent ones: those that truly make a mark of our mortality. This piece looks at that process, the symbols of metamorphosis foiled against the permanent truths and the cyclical nature that we all exist in. Sunsets evoke a peaceful invitation to change, a dreamy blend of colors and clouds. At the foreground an iron sword calls to a fond but now strangely distant time, a cicada exists in its routine moment in history, death and decay – all in the soil everything will one day succumb to. To our comfort, the moon peers back at us, always unchanging, always at a distance. – Jonathan Espinoza-Perez
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Jonathan Espinoza is a painter working and living in Chicago. He received his BFA from the American Academy of Art in Chicago in 2020. Having graduated at the peak of the pandemic and followed by isolation, his current work is a result of self reflection, the unknown, and the dread that seems to tease us when we try to escape it. Jonathan has exhibited in numerous group shows throughout Chicago and has assisted in multiple murals in the Midwest.