2016 “Good Wind” Abstract Expressionist Contemporary Painting on mixed media by Sebastian Vallejo

The Puerto Rican Artist Sebastian Vallejo latest series ” Wind, Light and Color”. Vallejo pays tribute to Nature’s all-encompassing power and beauty. Each painting recalls the expansive and improvisational qualities in nature, specifically from the Caribbean. The artist’s work also integrates chromatic fabrics that carry visual and cultural allusions to the island from where he is from. His unique process involves a direct transfer of the fabric’s floral patterns onto canvas, which Vallejo then enhances through hand-applied paint in a seemingly haphazard manner that yields a shockingly harmonious ode to color, mark -making and country.

About Sebastian Vallejo and his Work

Sebastian Vallejo (b. 1982 Puerto Rico) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His studies include an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009; a Post Baccalaureate Certificate from SAIC in 2007; and a BFA from the University of Puerto Rico in 2004. Vallejo has exhibited widely and is in private collections in Puerto Rico, New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Texas. He has been featured in New York Spaces magazine, Paper magazine, Elle Décor, and ASPIRE Design & Home magazine among others. His work was recently the subject of a solo museum exhibition at the Museo del Arsenal de la Marina Española in San Juan, Puerto Rico.