Casey Arguelles

Remedy for Aristocratic Hemophiliacs

acrylic on canvas

3800.00

Artist statement



Beauty is a sticky, cumbersome thing.  As best I can surmise, it is an impossibly powerful monster that vanishes as soon as you lean in to inspect it.  It is my artistic and intellectual instinct to root it out by lavishing its sensual qualities on the viewer.  I believe the wordless commonality of human experience is discovered not through high-minded discourse, but in the intricate and transient world around us.  The medium of painting and its rich history offer the perfect dichotomy; a simultaneous invitation and denial of entry.  Space and flatness, illusion and object, and every other opposing force in these paintings rise up like mountains of certainty within my mind.  The intervening valleys are filled with the shadowy, unexplainable experience of life, wherein lurks the often glimpsed but never named monster that is beauty.

Casey Arguelles

EDUCATION

2007-2009     Master of Fine Arts-Painting
                      University of Texas at San Antonio         
2004-2007     Bachelor of Fine Arts-Painting
                      University of Texas at Arlingtom
2007              Southern Graphics Council Conference Kansas City

EXHIBITIONS

2010    Halfbreed, Texas Lutheran University, July
                  Amalgamations-CAM, Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, March
                  Chromophilia, Lone Star Studios, January

2009    Rupture In the Quiet Foyer, MFA Thesis, UTSA Satellite, November       
                  Broad Perspective, UTSA Satellite Space, June
                  Red Dot, Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, May

2008    Student Show, Group Exhibition, UTSA 1604 Gallery
Arts and Eats, Blue Star Contemporary Arts Center, October
Arte Nuevo, UTSA 1604 Gallery, July
Attainable Piece, UTSA Satellite Space, March

2007    Memoria, Gallery West: UTA, March 2007