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Carlos Vel\u00e1zquez is a painter who divides his time between New York City and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. His work is rooted in exploring relationships among texture, color, and light. For him, painting is an intuitive process \u2013 more about interpreting impressions than creating literal representations. 
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Artistic Journey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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At first, Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s canvases may look abstract, but then the elements\u2014trees, hills, water\u2014gradually come into focus. He builds up areas of bold color on the surface of the canvas to create broad vistas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vel\u00e1zquez developed his artistic sensibilities as a child in rural Peru, as a teenager in Mexico City, and later at the University of California, Davis (BFA). In the 1970s, he moved to New York City to study at The Studio School, where he took classes with Nicolas Carone, Mercedes Matter, and George Spaventa. 
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Currently, Vel\u00e1zquez maintains a studio in the South Bronx and also returns regularly to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where the landscape feeds his imagination. Alongside his practice, he devoted much of his career to mentoring students in New York, guiding them to develop their artistic voices through collaboration and exploration.
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\u201cEvidently for Vel\u00e1zquez, the view serves as a visual metaphor of organized space\u2026 compositions that only allude to landscape without literally describing it.\u201d
\u2014Helen Harrison, The New York Times<\/em>
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His dual connection to Mexico and New York is reflected in the balance of natural beauty and urban intensity that defines his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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