fxmoya: Artworks
ABOUT
fxmoya was born in Puerto Rico in 1958. Raised in the artistic milieu of Old San Juan, he engaged painting since a very early age influenced by his exposure to the artists represented at his family’s Galería Palomas and before that Galería Botello. There he worked under the tutelage of his older brother, the late noted artist, Roberto Moya. He also studied at the San Juan Student Arts League and worked with artist Irene Delano. He attended Princeton University at a time when the fundamentals of the art of architecture were being actively debated by noted teachers such as: Michael Graves, Alan Colquohun, Alan Chimacoff, Rafael Moneo, Robert Geddes, Anthony Vidler and Robert Gutman. His love of mosaics, poetry and music affected Moya’s early work, synthesizing a modern pixilation of color set to the improvisational prowess of jazz. A technique that continues to this day, at times transmuted to a softer brush.
Although trained as an architect and urbanist, painting provides an outlet for the investigation of the same aesthetic principles evidenced in his built work: “…Architecture remains committed to a client and a program, and thus it is limited - although the compositional ideas are the same. These depict the significance of fragments in portraying larger concepts by providing glances of particular elements. These elements in turn suggest a larger whole or encompassing theme... They both allude to a narrative, a back-story that provides additional meaning…”
Moya sees his art as a sensual exploration of a compelling narrative - a story to tell. He visually reinterprets familiar cultural and universal themes as contemporary subjects to give them relevance and immediacy, integrating them into poignant compositions that then bursts into individual sparkles of color.
Although trained as an architect and urbanist, painting provides an outlet for the investigation of the same aesthetic principles evidenced in his built work: “…Architecture remains committed to a client and a program, and thus it is limited - although the compositional ideas are the same. These depict the significance of fragments in portraying larger concepts by providing glances of particular elements. These elements in turn suggest a larger whole or encompassing theme... They both allude to a narrative, a back-story that provides additional meaning…”
Moya sees his art as a sensual exploration of a compelling narrative - a story to tell. He visually reinterprets familiar cultural and universal themes as contemporary subjects to give them relevance and immediacy, integrating them into poignant compositions that then bursts into individual sparkles of color.
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Artworks: People and Places
Landscape and Abstraction
