The Artistic Journey of René Vasquez
René Vasquez was born in Los Angeles and attended the Art Center College Of Design. After a number of years making figurative art and exhibiting, he suffered a severe case of burnout and disenchantment and stopped painting for nearly seven years. Recently, he found himself relocated to North Carolina and, along with that move, began to again feel the compulsion to make art. Limiting himself to minimal materials, his work is now abstract and driven by a desire to create something similar to music; a more purely reactive emotional experience of the world around him. His collages act as a sort of memory map of a life lived; layering and building until something balanced, and maybe beautiful, emerges. Every individual layer cannot be isolated, or even seen, but it is still there, creating something that contains everything that created the piece, a metaphor for how we build a life, through memory, experience, and the messiness and improvisation of living.
