Francisco Mejía-Guinand lives and works in New York and Bogotá.
Career
Mejía-Guinand has spent his career examining ideas of
abstraction and expanding his spatial and temporal approach to
sculpture. In his work,\ developed in
New York, he focuses primarily on arrangements of
tetrahedrons systems. This highlight Mejía-Guinand's interest in balance and the contrast between positive and negative
fractal space, and explores the mathematical notion of
self-similarity and the idea of
multidimensional geometry.[9]
Mejía-Guinand is best known for his geometric
sculptures based on mathematics,
Russian Avant-garde,
Sacred Geometry and Origami principles. His work incorporates
bronze, aluminum,
stainless steel, titanium, brass, cooper tubing and cast aluminum and precious metals.
Mejía-Guinand's large-scale densely layered abstract oil painting are built up through layers of oil paint on canvas, then overlaid with mark-making using charcoal. His painting style displays the influences of
Willem de Kooning, and
Joan Mitchell.[10]
Exhibits
Mejía-Guinand's drawings,
collages, paintings, sculptures and architectural models have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Colombia, United States, Europe and Asia.[11][12][13][14]
Mejía-Guinand's first solo museum exhibitions, "Francisco Mejía-Guinand the Order of an Inner World" was held in 2003 at the
Art Museum of the Americas,[15] Other Solo exhibitions include:
"Francisco Mejía-Guinand, The Triumph of the painting" at The Embassy of Colombia at Washington D.C., March 25 April 24, 2015[16]